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Chichester faces an epidemic as recorded in WG5/1a/1 Minutes of the Court of the Poor Law by Philip Robinson

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In 1759 there was some concern in Chichester about a potential epidemic. The new Board of Guardians for the poor had been established. It had first met on Monday 2nd July 1753 to agree its structure and allocate responsibilities. This followed an Act of Parliament that had incorporated the nine parishes of the city into…

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Disease, Law, Local history, Statistics, Statute

The demise of St Peter the Less Church – and others

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In remembrance of a little church Seventy-two years ago, on the 30th of this month, the West Sussex Gazette recorded that the Church known as St Peter the Less in North Street ‘one of the pre-Reformation “little churches of Chichester” has now been demolished’. This church stood where the Lakeland store now stands and its…

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Buildings, Church, Local history