Caledonia : an address recited at the St. Andrew's anniversary festival of the Scots' Corporation, celebrated at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on Tuesday, November 30, 1813.
F.C.S.
[London : s.n.,
1813]
The Scottish Corporation of London was founded in 1665 as The Scots Hospital of Charles II with a large charitable donation from a rich expatriate Scot living in London. By 1810 the objectives of the charity were defined as "the relief of the poor Scots who have not acquired any parochial settlement in England ... who are disabled by disease to earn a livelihood, or are desirous of returning their native country, and are destitute of the means". The English Poor Law system, which was hardly altered until the 1830's, made no provision for foreigners or aliens.
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The poem is signed F.C.S. Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1813.
The paper is watermark dated 1813.
The Scottish Corporation of London was founded in 1665 as The Scots Hospital of Charles II with a large charitable donation from a rich expatriate Scot living in London. By 1810 the objectives of the charity were defined as "the relief of the poor Scots who have not acquired any parochial settlement in England ... who are disabled by disease to earn a livelihood, or are desirous of returning their native country, and are destitute of the means". The English Poor Law system, which was hardly altered until the 1830's, made no provision for foreigners or aliens.
Scottish Corporation in London
England London.