How To Use Poor rates In A Sentence

• I am thinking, however, that for all they cry against them, the poor rates are but a small evil, since they keep the poor folk in such food and raiment, and out of the temptations to thievery; indeed, such a thing as a common beggar is not to be seen in this land, excepting here and there a sorner or a ne'er-do-weel. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
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• The plaintiff lived in Totteridge and was evaluated for the poor rates by the assessors for Hatfield.
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