| Description | Scope and Content
Containing:
- Depositions and draft depositions of paupers and others as to settlements and bastards, sometimes signed by deponents and justices
- Rough notes of depositions
- Memoranda of agenda at petty sessions, and questions to be answered by deponents
- Reports of beadles and others as to settlements
- Reports of beadles and others as to addresses, families and circumstances of paupers.
- Names of persons giving security for bastards and inmates
- Justices' decisions (some signed), as to settlements, certificates, the amounts of pensions, extraordinary payments and orphans' allowances, the apprenticeship of pauper children and the amounts of premiums
- Beadles reports of removals carried out by them. The book contains many later annotations and corrections. |