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Poor rates   /pur reɪts/   Listen
Poor rates

noun
1.
A local tax for the relief of the poor.






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"Poor rates" Quotes from Famous Books



... various sorts had been tried, and after the government had in vain tried to stimulate private munificence to co-operate with the church [Sidenote: 1572] to meet the growing need, the first compulsory Poor Rates were laid. Three or four years later came an act for setting the poor to labor in workhouses. These measures failed of the success that met the continental method. Even compared to Scotland, England developed a disproportionate amount of pauperism. Some {562} authorities have asserted that by ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... to the tobacconist he left to the city of Chichester to relieve it of certain of its poor rates; and the citizens still magnify Hardham's name. He died in 1772 and had the good sense to restrict the expense of ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas



Words linked to "Poor rates" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, Great Britain, UK, U.K., United Kingdom, rates



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