Civic body · also Charity & hospital
Dover parish overseers
Also called the overseers · the Dover parish · the parish
The overseers of the poor for the Dover parish, who relieve over four hundred people in an ordinary quarter under the settlement law and bury paupers in a parish ground full for a generation.
Named with it
- Parish Overseer Nathaniel Selling
- Overseer Ralph Elham
Ties
- works alongside the quay mission
At the table
Quietly relieve the uncounted and foreigners without admitting a settlement, and never write it down. Estimate three to five hundred uncounted people in the town. Have used removal orders on foreigners four times in eleven years.