The state of the poor, or, An history of the labouring classes in England, from the conquest to the present period, in which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect to diet, dress, fuel, and habitation, and the various plans which, from time to time, have been proposed, and adopted, for the relief of the poor : together with parochial reports, relative to the administration of work-houses, and houses of industry, the state of friendly societies, and other public institutions, in several agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing, districts : with a large appendix, containing a comparative and chronological table of the prices of labour, of provisions, and of other commodities, an account of the poor in Scotland, and many original documents on subjects of national importance