A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1956.
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'Norton Mandeville: Poor relief', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell( London, 1956), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/p154a [accessed 6 November 2024].
'Norton Mandeville: Poor relief', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred. Edited by W R Powell( London, 1956), British History Online, accessed November 6, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/p154a.
"Norton Mandeville: Poor relief". A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred. Ed. W R Powell(London, 1956), , British History Online. Web. 6 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/p154a.
POOR RELIEF
No parish records are known to survive except the registers. Details of poor relief, 1776-1821, which are given below, come from returns made to Parliament and may not always be very accurate. (fn. 1) In 1776 a total of £70 was said to have been spent on poor relief. (fn. 2) The average for 1783-5 was £36. (fn. 3) The cost of relief was given as £140 for 1800-1, and for 1816-17. (fn. 4) Between those years it fluctuated, averaging slightly over £100 a year. Only once, in 1815-16, was it higher (£150) than in 1800-1. In 1817-18 it was given as £130, in 1819-20 as £116 and in 1820-1 as £100. (fn. 5)
There was a cottage in three tenements in Norton Mandeville which was used as a poor house. (fn. 6) It was sold by the Ongar Union in 1837. (fn. 7)