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Description: | 1. Forbes to Bromhead, 14 Feb., asking for his views on how best to suppress vagrancy. The magistrates in petty sessions at Sleaford are convinced something must be done to check the 'growing nuisance', 'particularly as they are establishing Mendicity systems in the Neighbourhood, that are likely to drag these Vagabonds upon us'. But to instruct the constables to arrest all vagrants would fill the house of correction to overflowing.
2. P. Torkington, Stamford, 15 Feb. Alarm here about the cholera spreading from London.
4. Notice about establishment of receiving houses for hundreds of Kirton and Skirbeck, under supervision of parish constables, 1 Feb.
5. R. Mason, Lincoln, 15 Feb. As the parishes would not form a medicity society, the magistrates are now taking firm action against sturdy beggars.
8-14. Details and printed forms of Peterborough Society for the Prevention of Mendicity.
16. Bromhead to Forbes, 17 Feb. Few cases of real distress. Most vagrants make vagrancy a profession, and are in constant communication so that the news that a group of magistrates are acting firmly soon gets around. A week on the treadmill would probably be enough in most cases. 'It is not their disorderly conduct that we principally complain of, but their numbers, the danger of infection, espionage, and pernicious example to our labourers'. 'The best and only receiving House should be the House of Correction'.
20. Printed order of Kesteven sessions, Sleaford, 20 Feb. | Subjects: | Law & Order Quarter Sessions | Temporal: | Feb 1832 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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