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Liverpool Vestry _Books, 1681 - 1834. Edited by Henry Peet, F.S.A. Vol.

I. (Constable and Co. 15s. net.)—The Liverpool Vestry books contain the minutes of all the Vestry meetings held from the year 1682. Their peculiar importance for the study of the history of the Poor Law was originally pointed out by Mr. and Mrs. Webb, and the whole of them are now being printed under the direction of the School of Records of Liverpool University. The present volume contains the records from 1682 to 1799, as well as an important historical study by Mr. W. Lyon Blease upon "The Poor Law and Parochial Government in Liverpool."