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Anti-Poor Law poster - people trying to get into the workhouse

Satirical illustration of a group of paupers trying to get into a workhouse but being beaten back by a warden brandishing a club.

Transcript

[Man outside door:]

Pray, Sir, have mercy on us and let us in, or give us some relief, for we are actually starving.

[Man in doorway wielding a baton:]

Then go and rob for your living for ye can’t enter here – be off, ye varmint.