Dover quay mission

A mission on the Dover quay run by four women from one room the corporation lets at a nominal rent. It gives relief in kind (bread, coal, clothing, loans) to a reviewed list of two hundred and forty households, paid for by subscription.

Named with it

• Sister Agnes Minster · keeps the mission book

Ties

• subscribers include merchants, packet owners, corporation members and two county families
• relieves without asking about settlement, alongside the parish overseers

At the table

Gives no money, pays no rent and will not relieve a working man who drinks. Its forty-year household book is the best record of residence in eastern Kent; three bands have used it, on condition of silence. Keeps a private list of ninety unregistered children.