Parliamentary Papers, Volume 16H.M. Stationery Office, 1844 |
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a-year Aberystwith Act of Parliament amount arrear attend average bastard believe borough bridge Cardiganshire Carmarthen Carmarthenshire cent charge clerk coal colliers Commissioners commutation complaint consequence constables cost Davies deal debt district employed Evans expense farm farmers fees Fishguard funds gates give grievance guardians habit Haverfordwest horse increase instance interest John Jones keep Kidwelly labour Lampeter land Lewis lime line of road Llandilo Llanelly Llannon magistrates meeting miles Narberth neighbourhood never obliged opinion paid parish parties payment persons petty sessions Poor Law poor-rate pound quarter sessions Radnorshire received Rees relieving officer rent Rhayader salary suppose surveyor Swansea taken tallies tally-holders Tavernspite thing Thomas THOMAS FRANKLAND LEWIS Three Commotts tithe toll town treasurer Trust turnpike turnpike Trust turnpike-gates turnpike-road Union wages Whitland whole Williams wish Witness withdrew workhouse
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Page 37 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
Page 60 - Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate : for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Page 43 - Personal self-sufficiency and arrogance (the certain attendants upon all those who have never experienced a wisdom greater than their own) would usurp the tribunal. Of course no certain laws, establishing invariable grounds of hope and fear, would keep the actions of men in a certain course, or direct them to a certain end. Nothing stable in the modes of holding property or exercising function could form a solid ground on which...
Page 6 - Whereas," says the preamble of the older act— that of 1775— "by the statute law of Scotland, as explained by the judges of the courts of law there, many colliers, and coal-bearers, and salters, are in a state of slavery or bondage, bound to the collieries or salt-works where they work for life, transferable with the collieries and salt-works ; and whereas the emancipating,