Case 2258

Carelton Rode
Attleborough
Feb. 13th /93

Dear Mr. Dowson

Is the law in England so powerless against the devil & all his works that you & your brother Magistrates & Guardians of the poor in Beccles can do nothing to rescue that poor boy E from a fate worse than death? Will you kindly bring this sad case into consideration & decide what can be done to save him. Might he not be ordered into the House on the ground that his mother is not fit to have the