Relief Book 1835, Basing District

The Relief Book is basically a blank notebook, filled in by the Relieving Officer. It is unstructured and often difficult to read, particularly names and money.
Two hands of writing are clearly identifiable, of Relieving Officer Mansbridge and another hand, which appears to be that of William Lutley Sclater, the Chairman of the Board, who has signed or initialled relief comments in more than one place. W L Sclater was a local Magistrate, and seems to have been a decent and humane man, as indicated by his open, published Letter to the Poor Law Commissioners in 1836, in which he criticised many aspects of the new system of poor relief.
The above document is not an exact transcription (which would be difficult), but an extraction of the information that is clear and legible in relation to dates, names, parishes and circumstances. It was done for the purpose of providing background information for a Basingstoke Union Workhouse study, and not as an end in itself. It was extracted from photographs of the notebook taken in the Hampshire Records Office in September 2010.
19M52/3: Notebook containing particulars of persons from parishes in Basingstoke Union applying for relief, with notes of relief granted or refused, Jul-Dec 1835