'By the charitie of good people': poverty and neighbourly support in seventeenth century Lancashire
'By the charitie of good people': poverty and neighbourly support in seventeenth century Lancashire
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“好人的慈善事业”：十七世纪兰开夏郡的贫困和邻里支持
DOI：
10.1080/14631180.2016.1216346
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2016
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0.3
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Healey J
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作者：
Healey J
研究近代早期贫困的历史学家强调了穷人“转变”的方式，减少甚至防止他们对正式贫困救济的依赖。本文着眼于“临时经济”的一个方面：邻居对穷人的随意支持。它使用的证据来自兰开夏郡（1626-1710）独特的广泛的乞丐请愿档案，其中许多包含有关转变策略的附带信息。请愿书表明，邻里对贫困者的支持在兰开夏郡很常见，无论是通过局部乞讨还是通过更稳定的支持关系。尽管如此，邻居们的施舍很容易耗尽，贫困人口被迫求助于《济贫法》更为正式的支持。
Historians of early-modern poverty have emphasized the ways in which the poor ‘made shift’, reducing or even preventing their dependence on formal poor relief. This article looks at one aspect of that ‘economy of makeshifts’: the casual support of the poor by their neighbours. It uses evidence from a uniquely extensive archive of pauper petitions from Lancashire (1626–1710), many of which contain incidental information about strategies of making shift. The petitions suggest that neighbourly support for the needy was common in Lancashire, both through localized begging and in more stable supportive relationships. Nonetheless, the charity of neighbours could easily be exhausted, leaving those in poverty forced to call upon the more formalized support of the Poor Law.