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List of Tables and Figures - List of Abbreviations - Notes on theContributors - Introduction - Going on the Parish: the Parish Pensionand Its Meaning in the London Suburbs 1640-1724; J.Boulton - LondonDomestic Servants from Depositional Evidence, 1660-1750:Servant-Employer Sexuality in the Patriarchal Household; T.Meldrum -'Unlawfully Begotten on Her Body': Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor inSt Luke's, Chelsea; T.Hitchcock - 'The Bowels of Compation': aLabouring Family and the Law c.1790-1834; P.Sharpe - Voices in theCrowd: the Kirby Lonsdale Township Letters 1809-36; J.S.Taylor - OldAge in Poverty: the Record of Essex Pauper Letters 1780-1834; T.Sokoll- Pauper Inventories and the Material Life of the Poor in theEighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; P.King - 'An Old Offendertho' so Young in Years': the Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders inMiddlesex in the 1830s; H.Shore - 'The Poor in Blindnes': Letters fromMildenhall, Wilts 1835-6; G.C.Smith - Index