The Roundsman System (sometimes termed the billet, or ticket, or item system), in the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), was a plan by which a parish paid the occupiers of property to employ the applicants for relief at a rate of wages fixed by the parish. It depended not on the services, but on the wants of the applicants, the employer being repaid out...
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Method of poor relief in England in the late 18th and early 19th century, whereby unemployed labourers were given a ticket by the
poor law guardians of the parish, and then went round the parish...
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