Hitchcock, David. (2012) A typology of travellers : migration, justice, and vagrancy in Warwickshire, 1670–1730. Rural History, Vol.23 (No.1). pp. 21-39. ISSN 0956-7933

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Abstract

This paper examines the relief of travellers in Warwickshire, England. By using an unusually rich set of Constables Accounts for the parish of Grandborough, it interrogates the relationship between charity, local justice, and both official and popular perceptions of migration. It argues that the large number of migrants who passed through rural parishes were categorised by the local constable according to cultural and discretionary criteria. This typology of travellers determined the nature and extent of the relief they might receive and the actions that might be taken against them. Socially threatening migrants, such as poor pregnant women, the sick, and vagrants, also found themselves affected by this same proscriptive calculation, often to their detriment. © 2012 Cambridge University Press.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Rural History
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0956-7933
Date:	April 2012
Volume:	Vol.23
Number:	No.1
Page Range:	pp. 21-39
Identification Number:	10.1017/S0956793311000136
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44360

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