'These meritorious objects of the Royal Bounty ...' : the administration of the out-pension of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea in the early eighteenth century
This paper explores the establishment and operation of the Chelsea Outpension from 1688 up to 1755. It asks why such rewards for service to the Crown should have been paid to members of the labouring classes distributed across the British Isles, at a time when central government welfare did not exis...
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University of Southampton
2016
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722881 |