Reference
L28/28
Title
Agreement for maintaining Maulden workhouse:
(i) Thos. Higham & Jer. Reynolds, churchwardens of Maulden;
Hugh King & Thos. Barker, overseers of Maulden;
(ii) Thos. Wills, late of Northants., now of Maulden, tailor;
Thos. Wills will provide for, maintain and keep all and
every the poor of Maulden as are not able to support
themselves, with good wholesome diet of all sorts,
together with a proper quantity of good small beer;
and will provide for them decent and necessary
apparel of all kinds; and shall so provide for them
that they be in no ways chargeable to the parish for
any distemper, misfortune or other illness; except in
the case of a broken limb, or of an infectious distemper
(smallpox, venereal disease, 'scald head', or 'the itch');
such cases shall not be brought into the workhouse while
sick, but kept until recovered at a convenient place to
be provided by the parish. If the workhouse is not
large enough to contain all the poor, the overseers will
find another convenient house. The overseers will
pay Thos. Wills 100 p.a. He is to provide such of
the poor as can work with all necessary implements and
materials. An inventory of the contents of the workhouse
has been made, amounting to 9 14s. 10d., and a similar
valuation is to be made at the end of the term. If
any one of the parish of Maulden is taken ill, so as
to be unable to support themselves, Wills is to pay
a single person 2s. weekly; if 2 in family 4s.; if
3 or more note less than 6s., for one month only; if
not better then, he will care for them as he does for
the other poor. Anyone catching an infectious distemper
(other than those specified above), and removing
temporarily with some of their goods into the workhouse,
shall be able to take such goods with them on leaving.
If anyone cannot find work, Wills will (on direction from
the major part of the churchwardens and overseers) take
such person into the workhouse or allow them not more
than 6s. weekly for 1 month only; Wills
will bury the poor in the workhouse, or those to whom
he has been paying allowances. He may make use of the
ground belonging to the workhouse. The expense of a
doctor shall be shared. Joint efforts will be made to
bring back a runaway to his family, but if he cannot be
found, the family will be cared for as above.
witn. Thos. Campkin, Jn. Richardson;
inhabitants of Maulden: Wm. Betts, Wm. Ward.
Date free text
26 April 1775
Production date
From: 1775 To: 1775
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No. of pieces: 1
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