| Description | Documents concerning the procurement and availability of goods such as milk, butter, and other food items for the poor. The overall consensus being that goods were too difficult to procure for the poor due to poor wages, high costs, and far distances between farms and markets. Includes notations from Frederick Morton Eden “The State of the Poor Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period” (1797), referred to in the text as Eden “Hist of the Poor”. |