on the parish

on the parish
   obsolete British
   destitute
   Money needed for communal use was levied by means of a parish or parochial rate on property. Part of it went towards providing for the homeless and destitute. Also as on the parochial:
    This meant that one in every forty people in England and Wales was 'on the Parish'. (J. J. Lee, 1989, writing of 1904)
    They did their very best to get him gang on the 'parochial'. (Aberdeen Weekly Free Press, March 1901, quoted in EDD)

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