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RefNoKPSE/A/S
AltRefNoPS/E/AS
TitleSettlement Examinations
DescriptionSettlement Examinations form the most common surviving type of examination. The idea of a settlement was enshrined in law with the passage of An Act for the better Reliefe of the Poor in 1662, widely referred as the Act of Settlement. This Act was principally concerned with restricting migration and providing the basis for the exclusion of outsiders from parishes. Those immigrants thought likely to be chargeable to a parish could be removed under the Act’s auspices by order, if a complaint was brought against them within forty days of their arrival, always providing that they had not rented a house or land worth £10 per year or more, or provided a certificate attesting to their intention to undertake harvest work, or their normal residence elsewhere. [London Lives project]
Date1765-1842
CreatorNameEly and South Witchford Petty Sessions Division
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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