POOR LAWS - c.1836-7. A collection of ephemera relating to The Brixworth Union, including printed accounts, Appropriation Orders, a folio pamphlet entitled: 'A Table of Benefactors to the Church and the Poor, or The Parish of Old and a broadside entitled: 'Brixworth Union... We the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, in pursuance of the provisions of an act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his present Majesty King William the Fourth, intitulated "An act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales, do herby order and direct that the paupers of the respective classes and sexes described in the schedule hereunto annexed, who may now or hereafter be received and maintained in the Workhouse or Workhouses of the Brixworth Union, shall, during the period of their residence therein be fed, dieted, and maintained, with the food and in the manner described and set fourth in the said schedule".  Under this text is a list of food that workers should be entitled to on any particular day of the week including for the old, children and the sick. (torn with loss, not to text, creasing folds). (qty)