POOR RELIEF LAWS

Which is the correct name for the outdoor relief law which came into
effect in England about 1795?
Some references say SPEENHAMLAND, some say SPEEDHAMLAND, with the

Eve McLaughlin...

right (as a nickname)

Eve McLaughlin...

entirely wrong - the place, Speenhamland is near Newbury, and this is
where magistrates met to have a good nosh and then think up new rules to
delimit what the poor could have,

former bringing up the most references on web-search.

Peter Goodey...

Speenhamland.

"Speenhamland system. In 1795 the overseers of the poor in the parish of
Speenhamland (Berkshire) adopted a method of supplementing low wages with
an allowance paid for out of the rates. This allowance varied according
to the cost of bread. The system was widely copied in southern England,
but as local farmers deliberately kept wages low, in the knowledge that
allowances would be given by the parish, the number of people on poor
relief actually rose. The system was discredited before the Poor Law
Amendment Act (1834)."

[The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History]

"The county did, however, do its bit for poor relief and the National
'Speenhamland Act' of 1795 setting relief rates was so called because the
whole of the country followed the scale worked out by the Berkshire
magistrates when they met at the George & Pelican."

squealing...

The various in- and out-relief laws are summarised here at Peter
Higginbotham's v. handy site, look under 'the Old Poor Law':

including the Speenhamland system (which was just one of several systems of
out-relief)