There were “Overseers of the Poor, ” pauper auctions, and laws of settlement; and there were almshouses, “bridewells, ” and “houses of industry.”

有“对穷人的监督者”、贫民拍卖和定居法；还有救济所、“拘留所”和“工房”。

There is scarce a poor man in England, of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not, in some part of his life, felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements.

在英国，几乎没有一个 40 岁的穷人，我敢说，在他生命的某些阶段，他没有感到自己受到这种设计不当的定居法最残酷的压迫。