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As in Highland Scotland, estates in the north of Ireland held an important place in a hierarchy of resort for the poor, even if their commitment to help was always circumscribed by close attention to entitlements. The proportion of petitions asking for help in ill health or other adverse circumstances was indeed the highest of any of the series analysed: 46 per cent of all petitions addressed to the Drapers in 1832 were for poor relief and five-sixths of those sent to Lady Londonderry in 1850–52. We have already encountered examples of this sort of petition in Chapter 13, leaving this one to deal with the wider context of relief provided by the estate.
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Houston, R.A. (2014). Poverty and its relief in the north of Ireland: the place of the estate. In: Peasant Petitions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137394095_18
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