Charity and the bequest motive: evidence from seventeenth-century wills
Online essay exploring the motivations for charitable bequests in 17th-century Suffolk (Leslie McGranahan)

Dependency, shame and belonging: badging the deserving poor, c.1550-1750
article by Steve Hindle
from Cultural and Social History, 1:1 (2004)

Forced labour, workhouse-prisons and the early modern state
seminar paper by Thomas Munck, examining early developments in institutionalised poor relief, through a case study of Danish workhouses and forced labour schemes
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)