        item: #1 of 13
          id: A06234
      author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
       title: Orders conceiued and agreed to be published, by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citie of London, and the iustices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell
        date: 1608
       words: 2671
      flesch: 59
     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. IF any person visited doe fortuue , by negligent looking vnto , or by any other meanes , to come or be conuayed from a place infected , to any other place , the Parish from whence such partie hath come , or beene conuaied , vpon notice thereof giuen , shall at their charge cause the saide party so visited and escaped , to be carried and brought backe againe by night , and the parties in this case offending , to bee punished at the direction of the Alderman of the Warde , and the Iustices of the Peace respectiuely : and the house of the receiuer of such visited person , to be shutte vp for twenty daies . THat euery house visited be marked with a red Crosse of a foote long , in the middle of the Doore , euident to be seene , and with these vsuall printed wordes : that is to say , Lord haue mercy vpon vs to be set close ouer the same Crosse , there to continue vntill lawfull opening of the same house .
    keywords: citie; euery; house; london; tcp; text; vpon
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: A22844
      author: England and Wales.
       title: Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.
        date: 1630
       words: 29024
      flesch: 42
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same.
    keywords: acte; aforesaid; bee; citie; corporate; countie; county; doe; euery; execution; good; haue; house; infected; infection; iustices; officers; ouerseers; parish; peace; persons; places; plague; present; realme; reliefe; rogues; sayd; sessions; shal; themselues; time; towne; vpon; vse
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: A32836
      author: Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.
       title: Sir Josiah Child's proposals for the relief and employment of the poor
        date: 1670
       words: 5655
      flesch: 50
     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 .
    keywords: fathers; kingdom; men; persons; poor; question; tcp; text; work
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: A35223
      author: Cary, John, d. 1720?
       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.
        date: 1700
       words: 2561
      flesch: 57
     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.
    keywords: corporations; houses; poor; tcp; work
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: A39483
      author: England and Wales.
       title: By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague.
        date: 1645
       words: 1309
      flesch: 64
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39483 of text R43145 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E929). By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and orderin England and Wales 1645 946 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: majesties; oxford; persons; text
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: A43803
      author: Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.
       title: England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county, for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum. And also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a begger bred up in the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the honourable House of Commons. By R. Haines. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. Pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published.
        date: 1680
       words: 8508
      flesch: 54
     summary: To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament.
    keywords: expedients; government; houses; industry; nation; people; reason; wealth; wooll; work
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: A44144
      author: Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.
       title: A discourse touching provision for the poor written by Sir Matthew Hale ...
        date: 1683
       words: 9735
      flesch: 60
     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.
    keywords: imployment; kingdom; means; persons; poor; provision; relief; stock; time; trade; work
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: A45753
      author: Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
       title: A further discoverie of the office of publick addresse for accommodations
        date: 1648
       words: 9947
      flesch: 50
     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 .
    keywords: addresse; desire; doth; information; matters; means; men; office; places; publick; registers; things; way
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: A49037
      author: City of London (England).
       title: My lord mayor and this Court of Aldermen taking into consideration the wants and necessities of the honest and laborious poore inhabitants (especially of the out parishes) of this city ...
        date: 1658
       words: 723
      flesch: 60
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49037 of text R39820 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2864H). [1658] Title from first 3 lines of text.
    keywords: city; london; text
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: A58542
      author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.
       title: Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers
        date: 1685
       words: 1996
      flesch: 56
     summary: Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers Edinburgh (Scotland). Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 848:25) Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers Edinburgh (Scotland).
    keywords: act; city; persons; tcp; text
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: A70032
      author: England and Wales.
       title: By the Lords and others His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague.
        date: 1644
       words: 1315
      flesch: 63
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A70032 of text R41852 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E928). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A70032) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109251)
    keywords: majesties; oxford; persons; text
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: A79319
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: By the King. A proclamation for quieting possessions
        date: 1660
       words: 785
      flesch: 69
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79319 of text R225521 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3397). At end of text:
    keywords: possessions; proclamation; text
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: A79391
      author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
       title: Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. VVhereas our royal father of blessed memory, did in the year 1632. constitute and establish a Society of Fishers, ...
        date: 1660
       words: 1135
      flesch: 69
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79391 of text R212503 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.25[61]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163866)
    keywords: royal; text; trusty; year
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