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Church briefs in England and Wales from Elizabethan times to 1828

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Date
2015
Author
Houston, Robert (Rab)
Keywords
DA Great Britain
BR Christianity
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Abstract
From Tudor times until the early nineteenth century, church or charity briefs were officially issued to individuals or groups who had suffered catastrophic financial losses, allowing them to solicit donations from a wide community of Christians. The article looks at the legal and institutional background of briefs and the changing contexts in which they operated, as well as exploring their nature, aims, receptions, and limitations. It puts a particular mechanism of charity back into the context of welfare machinery as a whole and uses its development to chart the changing (and geographically varied) relationships between institutions and society.
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Houston , R 2015 , ' Church briefs in England and Wales from Elizabethan times to 1828 ' , Huntington Library Quarterly , vol. 78 , no. 3 , pp. 493-520 . < http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/hlq.2015.78.3.493 >
Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0018-7895
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. All rights reserved. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/hlq.2015.78.3.493
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8227

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