Beggar regulation of 1642 ( Swedish: 1642 års tiggareordning) was a Swedish

Poor Law In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of hel ...

which organized the public

Poor relief In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of hel ...

in the Sweden. The regulations of the law, with some alterations, was in effect until the Poor relief regulation of 1847 In the

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, poor care in Sweden was traditionally handled through the rotegångsystem in the country side, and by the poor houses of the church in the cities, a system which was kept after the

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, though the responsibility was formally (though not in practice) transferred from the church to the civil authorities (as the church itself became owned by the state). The regulation of 1642 stated that the every parish were responsible for their own paupers. Every parish should have a poor house for old and sick people, and an orphanage for children, financed by the parish church collection. If such facilities did not exist in the parish (and in rural communities, they seldom did, except for the occasional backstuga), then the paupers should either be housed with the parishioners in accordance with the established traditional rotegångsystem, or be given a

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permit, legal only in their own parish: all other forms of beggary were banned. The 1642 regulation were given some complements and smaller alterations, but it remained as the ground for the poor care system in Sweden until the Poor relief regulation of 1847

References

* Elisabeth Engberg, ''I fattiga omständigheter. Fattigvårdens former och understödstagare i Skellefteå socken under 1800-talet''. n poor circumstances. Poor relief policy and paupers in Skellefteå parish, Sweden, in the nineteenth centuryUmeå 2005, 368 pp. Monograph. {{DEFAULTSORT:1642 ars tiggareordning Social history of Sweden 1642 in law Social law 1642 in Sweden

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