The overseers' papers include
settlement, removal and bastardy orders,
apprenticeship indentures, accounts and
bills, orders of the City Quarter
Sessions relating to the Poor Law, rate
books and some inventories of parish
properties.
In the 17th century, the Churchwardens
of Oxford St. Michael acted as
treasurers for the poor. Their Accounts
for 1635-1709 may be found bound into
PAR211/4/F1/3-4.