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Reference Number HUGUENOT LIBRARY/RB/E/024
TitleLists of poor persons in five categories accorded relief in distributions in the department of Westminster and Soho
DateDec 1707-May 1708
DescriptionBegins: 'Distributions ordinaires commences a regler le Jeudi 11e Dec. 1707'. Categories: ordinary, orphans, apprenticeships, special (extraordinary) grants, the sick, ordinary and special. Particulars given: addresses, amounts accorded, marital condition, families, age, infirmities.
The first list is signed by Brocas de Hondesplens, C D'Argenteuil, Jaques du Mesnil Lambert, A de Beauregard, (one illegible), J Lefargue. Later lists are also signed but not identically. Many street names given in the addresses are of places in the Soho area. The categories of relief are those then obtaining in that area. See the distribution 'estats' printed in 1708.
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AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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