This section includes overseers'
accounts, many poor law papers,
including settlement certificates,
removal orders, bastardy papers,
apprenticeship indentures and the like.
There are also orders from the City
Quarter Sessions for contributions to be
paid to poorer parishes. The Poor Rate
Accounts include several accounts for
rates raised for the gaol and the
militia.
There are also some papers on the Oxford
Guardians of the Poor, including some
extracts from their minute books, which
are all the more important since the
originals are missing.