Excerpt from The Accounts of the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden, Southwark: 17 May 1608 to 30 September 1671 Ihe document from which the following pages have been printed is in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum (add. And was purchased from R. J. Parr in 1891. The original manuscript is on paper, and consists of 47 folios, of which the first 13 have unfortunately been mutilated, but nothing im portant seems to be lost. The whole is of considerable interest from the light it throws on the manners and customs of the inhabitants of this part of south London in the seventeenth century; it does not appear to have been seen hitherto by any writer on the topography of Southwark. Before studying the document itself, perhaps it will be well to say a few words about the place to which it relates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.