1. [Guy], ‘Plague’, pp. 305, 401–2, capitalization in original.
2. William Augustus Guy,The Evils of England, Social and Economical(1848; reprinted in 1865); ‘The Begging Profession’,The Times, 10 January 1849, p. 5A; ‘Lectures on Public Health’,Medical Times, 3 (1851), pp. 295–8; ‘Rescued from the Beggars', in Viscount Ingestre (ed.),Meliora; or, Better Times to Come, 2 vols (1852–3), II, pp. 234–48;The Plague of Beggars: A Dissuasive from Indiscriminate Alms-Giving(1848; reprinted in 1852 and 1868). Though some of these works appeared anonymously, Guy was widely acknowledged to have authored them, and the subject also became a regular component in his public lectures – ‘Guy’, in Robertson (ed.),Photographs, II, p. 63.
3. [Guy], ‘Plague’, p. 401. As the subtitle (‘A Dissuasive from Indiscriminate Alms-Giving’) implies, this argument was ubiquitous throughout Guy's pamphletThe Plague of Beggars.