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id: A83596
author: England and Wales. Parliament.
date: 1652.0
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title:
  Tuesday the seven and twentieth of April, 1652. Votes of Parliament for setting the poor on vvork, and for preventing of common-begging.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83596 of text R211482 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[49]). With Parliamentary seal at head of text.


id: A91680
author: Ayscough, Edward, Sir.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 699
sentence: 47
flesch: 72
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title:
  By vertue of an order of the honourable House of Commons, made on Monday the seventh of this present moneth of February, 1641. We (the committee appointed, to receive the moneys given, by the members of the House of Commons, for the reliefe of the poore distressed people that are come out of Ireland) ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91680 of text R232130 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R1122). [London : 1642] Title from opening lines of text.


id: A83903
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 789
sentence: 50
flesch: 69
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title:
  Die Veneris. 5 March. 1646. The Lords in Parliament assembled taking into their consideration the multitude of beggars, poore, and vagabonds in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, ...

summary:
  [i.e. 1647] Title from heading and first lines of text. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83903 of text R212319 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[81]).


id: A83864
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 807
sentence: 57
flesch: 72
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title:
  Whereas by an order of the House of Commons, bearing the date 3d. of October, 1649. Silvanus Taylor, William Hickcockes, Maurice Gethin, and George Cooper, are appointed and authorized to state the principall and interest due to such poore persons within the cities of London and Westminster. ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83864 of text R211286 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[82]). [London : 1649] Title from caption and first lines of text.


id: A83830
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 789
sentence: 49
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A83830.xml
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title:
  Die Martis, 3 Octobr. 1649. Resolved by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that all and every such poor person and persons as did voluntarily in the year 1642. contribute any moneys, plate, or horse ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83830 of text R211275 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[78]). Title from caption and opening lines of text.


id: A90113
author: Odling, Edward.
date: 1654.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 673
sentence: 36
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A90113.xml
txt: txt/A90113.txt
title:
  Honoured Sir, that the works of mercy and charity are the fruits of piety, is the undoubted tenent of all Christians, ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90113 of text R212130 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[48]). Title from opening lines of text.


id: A62756
author: James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
title: To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie the humble address of poor distressed prisoners for debt.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1084
sentence: 57
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A62756.xml
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summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62756) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43056)


id: A40408
author: Fraser, Andrew, of Kinmundie.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1294
sentence: 49
flesch: 53
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title:
  Advertisement by the sheriff-deput of Aberdeen shire, undersubscryveing Whereas, by the foresaid proclamation, the Lords of their Majesties most honorable Privy Councill, doe strictly require and command obedience to the former proclamation and this, for setling of maintenance for the indigent and necessitous poor, and suppressing of vagabounds and sturdie beggers, ...

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id: A74149
author: Governors for the Poor (London, England)
date: 1655.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1160
sentence: 36
flesch: 52
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title:
  At a court held by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor President, and the rest of the Governors of the Corporation for the Poor of London the 6th of February, 1655.

summary:
  At end: Signed by the Appointment of the said Corporation; by William Haslope Clerk to the said Corporation. Annotation on Thomason copy: feb. 7th. WHereas the Governors of the Corporation for the Poor of London , have from year to year given publique notice of their having a Stock of Flax , Hemp , and Tow , at either of their Workhouses , to imploy the Poor within this City and Liberties thereof ; And for some years together did imploy about one thousand Poor at Work , besides the Poor Children that are Educated by the said Corporation in Learning and Arts ; Yet neverthelesse there are many Vagrants and Common Beggers which continually frequent the Streets of this City , and refuse to receive or undertake any lawfull work , or imployment , to the Scandall of the Government of this City , and the profession of Religion .


id: A49049
author: City of London (England).
date: 1650.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1239
sentence: 45
flesch: 59
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title:
  Severall propositions tendered by the Corporation for the imploying the poor of London and liberties

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49049 of text R37987 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2877A). Corporation of London 1650 949 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


id: B06749
author: L. W.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1728
sentence: 81
flesch: 76
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txt: txt/B06749.txt
title:
  All things be dear but poor mens labour; or, the sad complaint of poor people. Being a true relation of the dearness of all kinds of food, to the great grief and sorrow of many thousands in this nation. Likewise, the uncharitableness of rich men to the poor. This song was begun at Worcester, the middle at Shrewsbury, the end at Coventry. / By L. W. To the tune of, Hold buckle and thong together.

summary:
  All things be dear but poor mens labour; or, the sad complaint of poor people. All things be dear but poor mens labour; or, the sad complaint of poor people.


id: A49050
author: City of London (England).
date: 1655.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1387
sentence: 50
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A49050.xml
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title:
  The Report of the governours of the corporation for improving and releiving the poor of this city of London, and liberties thereof

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49050 of text R39650 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2877B). Poor laws -- England.


id: A62738
author: Emerson, Joseph, fl. 1685. aut
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1827
sentence: 57
flesch: 56
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title:
  To the honorable the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Robert Tayloe, Joseph Emerson, John Sawbridge and Edward Pearce on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the East-India Company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars.

summary:
  The humble petition of Robert Tayloe, Joseph Emerson, John Sawbridge and Edward Pearce on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the East-India Company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars. 1685 Approx. The humble petition of Robert Tayloe, Joseph Emerson, John Sawbridge and Edward Pearce on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the East-India Company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars.


id: B01894
author: City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.
title: The case of the city of London, in reference to debt to the orphans, and others.
date: 1692.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1999
sentence: 65
flesch: 56
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summary:
  City of London (England). BY the Custom of LONDON , confirmed by divers Acts of Parliament , the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen are Guardians of the ORPHANS of all Freemen of the said City , and have the Care and Government of Them , their Estates , and Marriages ; and have a Customary Jurisdiction by the Name of The Court of Orphans .


id: A35709
author: Dagget, George.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2329
sentence: 73
flesch: 61
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title:
  The estate of the poor in Sion College London truly stated by George Dagget ... in a letter to a friend.

summary:
  The estate of the poor in Sion College London truly stated by George Dagget ... in a letter to a friend. The estate of the poor in Sion College London truly stated by George Dagget ... in a letter to a friend.


id: A35223
author: Cary, John, d. 1720?
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2561
sentence: 80
flesch: 57
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title:
  A proposal offered to the committee of the honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of ways for the better providing for the poor and setting them on work, and now under their consideration.

summary:
  That Hospitals , and Work-houses , and Houses of Correction , shall be erected in convenient Places , under the Government of each Corporation ; wherein the impotent Poor shall be provided for ; Vagrants and Idle People punished , and kept at Hard Labour ; Young People of both Sexes bred up to work till the Age of Sixteen , and also taught to read ; and the said Corporations shall have power to bind them out Apprentices , the Boys to the Age of _____ and the Girls to the Age of _____ or time of Marriage . A proposal offered to the committee of the honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of ways for the better providing for the poor and setting them on work, and now under their consideration.


id: A43852
author: Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3022
sentence: 94
flesch: 55
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title:
  Provision for the poor, or, Reasons for the erecting of a working-hospital in every county as the most necessary and onely effectual expedient to promote the linnen manufactory, with comfortable maintenance for all poor and distressed people in citie and country by which all beggars, vagrants, &c. throughout the nation, may speedily be restrained, and forever prevented : in pursuance to certain proposals to the King and Parliament.

summary:
  In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A87194
author: Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3032
sentence: 103
flesch: 67
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title:
  The Parliaments reformation or A worke for presbyters, elders, and deacons to engage themselves, for the education of all poore children, and imployment of all sorts of poore, that no poore body young or old may be enforced to beg within their classes in city nor country. Published for the generall good of the kingdome. / By S.H. a friend of the common-wealth.

summary:
  people , how shall one Church or house receive them all , in such a case many workhouses about London will be very needfull to keepe people together vnder government on the Sabboth day , as on the weeke dayes ; this deserves a consideration from the Parliament for the good of the peoples soules , and the preventing of Childrens playing in the streets and beggers begging on the Sabboth dayes ; So much for houses : Secondly for stocke . Poor children -- England -- Early works to 1800.


id: A43794
author: Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3375
sentence: 100
flesch: 59
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title:
  A breviat of some proposals prepared to be offered to the great wisdom of the nation, the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and both houses of Parliament for the speedy restoring the woollen manufacture by a method practiced in other nations ... / by R. Haines.

summary:
  3. That the converting of such great Quantity of Wool will be of very little Charge to the Nation , so that all the Cloth we have to spare shall find quick Markets as fast as 't is made . 3. That the Converting of such great Quantity of Wool , will be of very little Charge to the Nation , so that all our Cloth shall find quick Markets as fast as made , is Demonstrable : For , By the Expedient proposed , all these People now maintained for doing little or nothing , may instead of doing nothing , convert our Wool into Cloth , for their Living , so that look how much more Cloth is made by these two hundred thousand People so much there 's clear Gain to the Nation .


id: A47261
author: Kent, Dircy.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1173
sentence: 43
flesch: 58
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title:
  An abstract of a proposal already laid before the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, for employing our poor, and preventing the exportation of our coin

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id: A31054
author: Barrow, Humphrey.
title: The relief of the poore and advancement of learning proposed by Humphrey Barrow.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3410
sentence: 116
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Wherein I have humbly assumed the confidence to mind You of the pious Customs of the Soldiers and Servants of God in former Ages ; nay of the laudable ( though blind ) Devotions of Pagans and Infidels , as Sacred , and other History do ( amply ) manifest ? Who no sooner could sound Victoria after a war , but up go the Alters , and on go the Sacrifices , in retribution of thanks to that Deity each held in veneration . 'T is true , we have ( in the progress of this War ) afforded God some Days of Thanks-giving ; and he ( at last ) having given us the issue of our hopes ; the Blessing and Harvest of our Blood and Sweat : those would all look like dayes of hellish Hypocrisie , if we should not now present him with some Deeds of Thanksgiving ; and Sacrifices being ceased , we have an Opportunitie to exercise what he loves better , which is , Mercie .


id: A93417
author: Smith, William, fl. 1655.
date: 1655.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3506
sentence: 120
flesch: 59
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title:
  The Humble petition of the prisoners in the fleet: as it was presented to his Highness the Lord Protector, and his Honourable councell. The 18th. day of May, 1655. Remonstrating the illegality of outlaries, arrests, and imprisonments, in civill, and personall actions. With an expedient for the satisfaction of all debts for ever, without arrests or imprisonment.

summary:
  That afterward by the Statute of Hen. 7. like Process was given in Actions upon the Case , as in Action of trespasse and Debt , and by the Statute of Hen. 8. like Process was given in a Writ of Anuity , as in an action of Debt ; all which Statutes are as Voyd , as that of the 25. of Edw. 3. to which they have relation , in right construction of Law ; for they are not positive Lawes , but relative to those former Statutes repealed by that Generall law of 42. of Ed. And also to try any fradulent settlement of any Lands or Goods made to defeat the Creditor , by a Iury of Twelve men , and may be directed ( if your Highness and Councell think fit ) to satisfie Creditors their principall debt , with inte rest according to the priority of their debts , and of their securities ; which by Law are to be first satisfied , and also to have power to qualifie or take off Interest ( with respect had to the late Warre ) as occasion shall require , and to give Damages to such who have been wrongfully Imprisoned , or unlawfully vexed , either for Debts formerly satisfied , or where men have layne in Prison three Termes , and no Declaration filed against them .


id: A02255
author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632, attributed name.
date: 1621.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4340
sentence: 128
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A02255.xml
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title:
  Greuous grones for the poore Done by a well-willer, who wisheth, that the poore of England might be so prouided for, as none should neede to go a begging within this realme.

summary:
  Excellently was that on-set giuen in the making of sundry Statutes ▪ for the releese of the Impotent , and setting the ydle on Worke : but if we consider how Negligence hath ouerthrowne that Famous Worke ; wee shall finde , how Selfe-Loue is setled farre into euerie mans heart , and that we so hotly hunt after priuate Gaine , that wee freezing coldly , seeke not any Publike Profite . This is the Incroachment , that will bring the woe of the Prophet vpon the Land. Euen thus as you see , the poore man with that which heretofore he had , and of right should now haue , is swallowed vp into the rich mans possession : but let mee shew those people their folly , by a simple simile .


id: A35154
author: Cary, John, d. 1720?
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4791
sentence: 129
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A35154.xml
txt: txt/A35154.txt
title:
  An account of the proceedings of the Corporation of Bristol in execution of the act of Parliament for the better employing and maintaining the poor of that city

summary:
  In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. The next step was to appoint a Committee of Twelve to hear the Complaints of the Poor , to relieve them , and set them at work ; Six whereof were to go out every Month , and to be succeeded by Six more , to be chosen by Ballating .


id: A32836
author: Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.
title: Sir Josiah Child's proposals for the relief and employment of the poor
date: 1670.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5655
sentence: 135
flesch: 50
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summary:
  For the resort of Poor to a City or Nation well managed , is in effect the Conflux rf Riches to that City or Nation ; and therefore the subtile Dutch receive and relieve , or employ all that come to them , not enquiring what Nation , much less what Parish they are of . For , if they give to the Beggers in the Streets , or at their Doors , they fear they may do hurt by encouraging that lazy unprofitable kind of Life ; and if they give more than their proportions in their respective Parishes , that ( they say ) is but giving to the Rich , for the Poor are not set on Work thereby , nor have the more given them ; but only their rich Neighbours pay the less .


id: A50763
author: Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6362
sentence: 161
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A50763.xml
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title:
  A method concerning the relief and employment of the poor humbly offer'd to the consideration of the king and both Houses of Parliament / taken out of Sir Josiah Child's writings ; with somewhat added which the late renowned judge Sir Mathew Hale, writ in his book intituled, A discourse touching provision for the poor.

summary:
  For , There sort of Poor to a City or Nation well managed , is in effect , the conflux of Riches to that City or Nation ; and therefore the subtil Dutch receive , and relieve , or employ all that come to them , not enquiring what Nation , much less what Parish they are of . WE have very severe Laws against Theft , possibly more severe than most other Nations , yea , and than the Offence simply considered deserves ; and there is so little to be said in defence of the severity of the Law herein , but the multitude of the Offenders , and the design of the Law rather to terrifie them punish : ut metus in omnes paena in paucos : But it is most apparent that the Law is frustrated of its Design therein ; for altho more suffer at one Sessions at Newgate for Stealing , and Breaking up Houses , and Picking of Pockets , and such other Larcenaries , than suffer in some other Countries for all Offences in three Years , yet the Goals are never the emptier : Necessity and Poverty and want of a due Provision for the Employment of Indigent persons , and the custom of a loose and Idle Life , daily supply with advantage , the number of those who are taken off by the Sentence of the Law : And doubtless , as the multitude of Poor and necessitous , and uneducated Persons increase , the multitude of Malefactors will increase , notwithstanding the Examples of Severity .


id: A44144
author: Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.
title: A discourse touching provision for the poor written by Sir Matthew Hale ...
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9735
sentence: 276
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A44144.xml
txt: txt/A44144.txt
summary:
  Poor that do their work well , and are honest , and industrious , cannot want work when any is to be had in the country , and those that are not imployed are either such as will not work , or cannot tell how to work , or will steal and purloyn their Work : These will undo the Work-House . And that the said Justices do assess three , four or five yearly Pays to be levyed and collected at one or two entire sums within the time prefixed by them for the raising of a Stock to set the Poor within those Precincts on work , and to build or procure a convenient Work-House for imploying the Poor , if need be , in it , and for lodging Materials , and for instructing Children in the Trade or Work.


id: A91789
author: Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.
title: The cause of the poor pleaded. By Samuel Richardson.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9237
sentence: 534
flesch: 89
cache: cache/A91789.xml
txt: txt/A91789.txt
summary:
  If ye give not those things that are needfull to the body , what doth it profit , Jam. 2. 16. 1 Joh. 3. 17. That their abundance might be a supply of their want , that there might be an equality , 2 Cor. 8. 13 , 14. I say not such an equality for every one to 〈◊〉 , and wear , and fare alike , but that the necessities of every one may 〈◊〉 supplyed ; yet it may be observed , that when God sed his people in ●●e wilderness , there were among them Princes and Rulers ; God ●…ould , but would not provide more , nor better for them then others , ●●…e meat for all , one Manna ; also God prescribed a like measure , a homer for each man ; the poorest in the wilderness could , and did eat as good Manna , and as much as others ; what else doth it signifie to us besides his bounty , but this , that it is the will of God that there should not be any inequality of living among his people , Ex. 16. 16 , 17 , 18. Also that we should not think any thing too much nor too good for the meanest of the Saints ; for Manna is called Angels food , and meat from heaven . 6. 8. To give is a proof of the sincerity of your love to God and man , 2 Cor. 8. 9. 24. Philem.


id: A45753
author: Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
title: A further discoverie of the office of publick addresse for accommodations
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9947
sentence: 235
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A45753.xml
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summary:
  We shall declare then with that simplicitie , which becometh a good conscience in the presence of God , that our desire is to serve all men freely in the Publick Interest so farre as God doth inable us ; and that by this Designe we Aime at a speciall Advantage to the Gospel of Christ rather then at any thing else ; and if we can but awake those , that are in Places of Power and Authoritie ; to take notice of the Means , whereby all Mens talents may become usefull to each other , in this Common-wealth ; that for their own Temporall Ends , they would countenance , and promote the same ; we shall have our End at this time in this undertaking . The multitude of affaires in populous Places doth naturally run into a confusion , except some orderly way be found out to settle Times and Places wherein those that are to attend them , may meet together for the transaction thereof .


id: A30697
author: Bush, Rice.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10297
sentence: 214
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A30697.xml
txt: txt/A30697.txt
title:
  The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work.

summary:
  And the said Corporation , or any nine of them , whereof the said President , or any of the said Aldermen , or the Deputy to the President , or the said Treasurer to be one , shall have hereby power and authority from time to time , to meet and keep Court for the ends and purposes herein expressed , at such time and place as the said President or his Deputy shall appoint : And shall have hereby authority from time to time to make and appoint a common Seal , for the use of the said Corporation , and to chuse such Officers , and them , or any of them from time to time to remove , as they shall see cause ; and upon the removall or death of them , or any of them , to chuse others in their places for the carrying on of this work ; and to make and give such reasonable allowance to them , or any of them , out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation , as they shall think fit , and shall have hereby full power and authority to doe and execute all such other Acts and things as are hereby ordained and appointed for the effecting the work hereby intended to be done and executed . And be it ordained by the authority aforesaid , for the further relief and employing of the said poor within the said City and liberties thereof , that the said Corporation or any nine of them , whereof the said President , or any of the said Aldermen , or the Deputy to the President , or the said Treasurer to be one , shall have power to Erect one or more Work-houses for receiving , relieving , and setting the poor on work , and one or more houses of Correction for punishing of Rogues , Vagabonds , and Beggers , as they shall think fit . And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid , that in regard of the great inequality in the ordering and relieving of the poor through the different abilities of the severall and respective Wards in the City of London and Liberties thereof , the said Corporation , or any Nine of them , shall hereby be authorised with consent of the Common Councell of the said City to divide the severall Wards with the poor and stock to them belonging , into four equall parts or proportions for the more effectuall and indifferent relief of the poor , and the avoiding future differences and dissentions between the rich and the poor Parishes ; provided this division of the said City and Liberties thereof , shall not be any prejudice to the relief of those parts of Parishes which lie without the Liberties of the City , which Parishes lie part within the Liberties , and part without : but that those parts which lie without the Liberties of the City shall and may have such relief from Parishes within the City , as formerly they have had . And be it ordained by the Authority aforesaid , That for the further relief and imploying of the said poor within the said City and Liberties , if the said Corporation shall finde that the Annuall Rates and Levies , or other Stock , come to their hands , shall not be sufficient for the effecting the purposes aforesaid ; that then and from time to time , it shall and may be lawfull for the said President and Governours to certifie such want of Stock , and what Summe or Summes of Money they think fit will supply the same , under their Common Seal , to the Common Councell of the said City , and the same to be Levied by them equally and indifferently upon the severall Wards respectively ; and that the said President and Governours , or any nine of them , whereof the said President , or any of the said Aldermen , or the Deputy to the President , or the said Treasurer to be one , shall have power from time to time to make and constitute Orders and By-Laws for the better relieving , regulating , and setting the poor on work , and the apprehending and punishing of Rogues , Vagabonds and Beggers within the said City and Liberties , that have not wherewith honestly to maintain themselves ; and for other the matters aforesaid , which said Orders and By-Laws shall be presented to the Lords and Commons for confirmation before the end of this Session of Parliament , and shall have hereby power to put forth , and binde such children Apprentices as shall be under their charge .


id: A27365
author: Bellers, John, 1654-1725.
date: 1699.0
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title:
  Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.

summary:
  And as God only ( who is Light ) can penetrate Men's Souls , and beholds the most inward Thoughts and Desires thereof , so he only is able , and doth shew them to Men , whether they are good or evil : And as Men's Wills and Affections comes to be subdued to the Will of God , he discovers to the Souls of Men. And it may be said of visible Bodies , as of Darkness it self , that tho God shines in them , they comprehend or apprehend him not , for indeed they want all Sence of Apprehension , as the greatest Light is unknown to the blind , and the greatest Sounds to the deaf , so also the Souls of Men , which are given up unto the Delights of sensual Objects ( until they are born a new ) they do want their Faculties to be sufficiently spiritualized to behold the immaterial Glory of God , tho his Light doth shew them their evil State , and his Spirit reproves them , they do not see him : That Degree or Manifestation of Light which only discovers a Man's unhappy State to him , appears far less glorious ( tho' it is divine ) than that which gives Peace , and discovers the Glory of God , as Man obeys it :


id: A41337
author: Firmin, Thomas, 1632-1697.
date: 1681.0
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sentence: 305
flesch: 41
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title:
  Some proposals for the imployment of the poor, and for the prevention of idleness and the consequence thereof, begging a practice so dishonourable to the nation, and to the Christian religion : in a letter to a friend / by T.F.

summary:
  Poor laws -- England. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A35207
author: Cary, John, d. 1720?
date: 1695.0
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title:
  An essay on the state of England in relation to its trade, its poor, and its taxes, for carrying on the present war against France by John Cary, merchant in Bristoll.

summary:
  And thus I have run through the several Parts of our Inland Trade , the Profit whereof depends on our Product and Manufactures ; Before I proceed to our Outland or Foreign Trade I shall speak something of Navigation , which is the Medium between both ; This is carried on by Ships and Saylors , the former are the Sea Waggons , whereby we transport and carry Commodities from one Market to another , and the latter are the Waggoners which drive or manage them ; these are a sort of merry unthinking People , who make all Men rich save themselves , have often more Money than is their own , but seldom so much as they know how to spend , generally brave in their Undertakings , they go through any kind of Labour in their own way with a great deal of chearfulness , are undaunted by Storms and Tempests , the Sea being as it were their Element , and are allowed by all to be the best Navigators in the World ; they are our Wealth in Peace , and our Defence in War , and ought to be more encouraged than they are in both , but especially in the latter , which might be done if better Methods were used to engage them in that Service , and better Treatment when there ; Now I should think if a List were taken of all the Saylers in England , and a Law made for every Person who enters himself on that Imploy at the Age of Years to have his Name registred , with the place of his Abode , and be obliged to appear on Summons left at his House , and no Man to be forced into the King's Service till he had been at Sea three Years , nor to stay therein above three Years without his free consent , and then to be permitted to take a Merchant's Imploy for so much longer , and during his being in the King's Service good Provision to be made for his Family at home , and a Maintenance for them in case of his death or being disabled , This would encourage them to come willingly into the Service , which they look on now to be a Slavery whereto they are bound for their Lives , whilst their Families starve at home ; This and the manner of pressing them discourages many , and hinders very much the making of Saylors , People not caring to put their Hands to an Oar lest the next day they should be halled away to the Fleet , though they understand nothing of the Sea ; I do not think too much Care can be taken for the well manning our Men of War , but I would have it also done with able Seamen , and not with such who will only stand in the way , and are useless when most wanted , and this must not be done by pressing , but by practicable Methods which shall draw every Man to take his turn at Helm ; I take Embargoes to be no helps towards it , for many Saylors do then lie hid , who would appear to serve in Merchant's Ships , and might be easily met with at return of their Voyages ; by this means in a short time there would be a double set of Mariners , enough both for the Service of the Fleet and Trade , the latter would every year breed more ; let the Commanders of Merchants Ships on Arrival give in Lists of the Saylors they have brought home , for whose appearance their Wages should be Bail , and then those whose turn it is to serve in the Fleet should after due time allowed for finishing their Voyages be sent thither , and a penalty on every Master of a Ship who carry'd a Saylor to Sea after his three Years Prodict was expired ; such Laws and Time would bring things into regular Methods . It 's well known that the Exporting our Wool to Foreign Markets hath by the ill Consequences thereof abated its Price at Home ; This hath been observed by Calculations made by considering Men , and the reason was , because those Countrys were thereby enabled to work up much larger Quantities of their own into various sorts of Manufactures , which both fitted their occasions at Home , and supplied Markets abroad where we generally vended ours ; by this means our Sales growing slack , and finding new Competitors in our Trade , we were forced to sell our Manufactures cheap , and this was done by making them slighter , and by lessening the Prices both of Wool and Labour ; whereas had we kept our Wool at Home these Mischiefs had been prevented , and the French and other Nations could not have made such a Progress in Manufactures as they have done ; their Wool being unfit to be wrought up by its self ( unless mixt with English or Irish ) must have sought a Market here , and been returned again to them in Manufactures , which is the true way to enrich this Kingdom ; This would have drawn over great Numbers of People to be employed in the Cloathing Trade , who would likewise have consumed our Product ; and as these had increased so also had their Imployment , which would have kept up the Price of Wool , things being of value in Markets according as they are supply'd by Nation 's standing in competition for Trade , and it must be allowed that it was not the Interest of England to fall its Manufactures abroad had we been the only Sellers , for according as they yielded there , so much is the Wealth of this Nation advanced ; This our Fore-fathers knew when they made Laws not only to prohibit the Exportation of Wool hence , but also from Ireland , which Laws cannot be too strong , on whose due observation depends our Wealth or Ruin ; now if the Trade of Ireland was reduced to that of our other Colonies , and the same Care taken about the Commodities of its growth , our danger from that Kingdom in Relation to this would be at an end , when Methods may also be used to prevent its being Exported hence . Nor is there any reason to be offered why Ireland should have greater Liberty than our other Plantations , the Inhabitants whereof have an equal Desire to a free Trade , forgetting that the first design of their Settlement was to advance the Interest of England , against whom no Arguments can be used which will not equally hold good against Ireland .


