The Elizabethan ones, codified from 1597 to 1601, required that each parish establish overseers who would collect the parish tax and provide assistance for the aged, young, and infirm.  
In the late eighteenth century, they were supplemented by the Speenhamland system that gave allowances to workers who received insufficient wages.  The Elizabethan ones, codified from 1597 to 1601, required that each parish establish overseers who would collect the parish tax and provide assistance for the aged, young, and infirm.  The New One of 1834 sought to punish the indigent and provided no relief except for work in the dreary workhouses for able-bodied paupers.  FTP, give the term for these English welfare laws.
In the late eighteenth century, they were supplemented by the Speenhamland system that gave allowances to workers who received insufficient wages.  
Poor Laws