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  <dc:title>Muggington House Row Book</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Printed book with spaces for entries to be made by hand.  Inside front cover has a printed warning: 3 shilling penalty to be paid to Overseers for destroying or losing the book.  First page has a printed list of 26 inhabitants of Mugginton "liable to take men by the round" and number of days in each round.  All subsequent pages have a printed heading requiring entry of details about daily wages, about victuals and signature of Churchwarden or Overseer.

The House Row or Roundsman practice was a development within Poor Law provision whereby men out of work would be given short-term work at very low wages supplemented by poor relief.  This book, however, has not been used for its original purpose.  Every page is filled with a comprehensive chronological list of mayors of London from 1191 to 1685.  There is no indication of who made the list or of when it was made</dc:description>
  <dc:date>early 19th Cent</dc:date>
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