Table of Contents:
  • Beggarman, thief, 1690-1713
  • Protest and resistance, 1713-1731
  • Vestries, justices and their opponents, 1731-1748
  • Reformers and their discontents, 1748-1763
  • Finding a voice, 1763-1776
  • The state in chaos, 1776-1789
  • Epilogue, the 1790s.