BoAr: Bourne Welfare: home © R.J.PENHEY 2006 Latest edit 27
May 2008
Bourne, like
everywhere else, has had to find ways of dealing with social hardships and
taking advantage of prosperity. The Abbey was a source
of consolation and of more directly practical help but once the house was
dissolved in 1536, the practical help had to be found by other means. This page
provides links to transcriptions of documents and interpretations. Some are on
this site but many come from elsewhere. Between them, the linked pages give
glimpses of how that coming to terms with the vagaries of life has been
achieved (or in some cases not), particularly in the years since the Augustinian canons left the Abbey.
Documents (transcriptions, translations and
summaries):
Parish Registers (1562 to
1650) reference to the edited version
Avoiding Poor Law Responsibilities
Bourne Charities: a list
formerly displayed in the church
Health Provision in
the Augustinian Rule See Chapter V
Matthew Clay’s colic:
obtaining medicine
White’s
Directory 1882 gives details and links concerning the Bourne Poor Law
Union.
Archaeological Studies
Studies (modern writing on the respective subjects):
Notes and
links on the English Poor Laws
A
use for one of the abbey’s fish ponds. See also:
swimming pool.
