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         Cary, John, d. 1720?
      
       
         
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             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.
             Cary, John, d. 1720?
          
           8 p.
           
             s.n.,
             [London :
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           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
             .
          
        
         
           THAT
           the
           Laws
           now
           in
           force
           about
           Vagrants
           ,
           Rogues
           ,
           Beggars
           ,
           Lewd
           Women
           ,
           Bastards
           ,
           
             &c.
          
           and
           also
           the
           Laws
           about
           the
           Settlement
           of
           the
           Poor
           be
           comprehended
           in
           one
           Statute
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           be
           more
           easily
           
           understood
           by
           those
           who
           shall
           undertake
           the
           Care
           of
           the
           Poor
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Laws
           about
           Providing
           for
           and
           Employing
           the
           Poor
           be
           still
           in
           force
           ,
           where
           new
           Corporations
           for
           the
           Poor
           are
           not
           setled
           .
        
         
           That
           Encouragement
           be
           given
           for
           erecting
           Hospitals
           ,
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           ,
           and
           Work-houses
           for
           Maintaining
           and
           Employing
           the
           Poor
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           Counties
           ,
           Cities
           ,
           and
           Towns
           ,
           under
           the
           Management
           of
           Corporations
           ,
           settled
           either
           under
           the
           Great
           Seal
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           or
           by
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           or
           by
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           in
           their
           Quarter-Sessions
           .
        
         
           That
           where
           these
           Corporations
           are
           settled
           in
           Cities
           or
           Towns
           Corporate
           ,
           the
           Poors
           Rates
           of
           all
           the
           Parishes
           be
           united
           into
           One
           ,
           and
           equally
           raised
           on
           the
           Inhabitants
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           Estates
           ,
           both
           Real
           and
           Personal
           ;
           except
           in
           
             London
             ,
          
           or
           other
           very
           large
           Places
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           divided
           into
           several
           Corporations
           ,
           by
           discretion
           of
           the
           Justices
           ,
           who
           may
           bring
           the
           Charge
           to
           an
           Equality
           ,
           either
           by
           joyning
           rich
           Parishes
           with
           poor
           ,
           or
           by
           making
           the
           richer
           Corporations
           contribute
           to
           the
           Poorer
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Corporations
           in
           the
           Country
           be
           not
           extended
           so
           large
           as
           to
           comprehend
           a
           whole
           County
           ,
           the
           Poor
           thereof
           being
           too
           many
           for
           one
           Corporation
           to
           govern
           ,
           but
           rather
           confined
           to
           a
           Hundred
           or
           Hundreds
           ,
           whose
           Parishes
           to
           be
           comprehended
           in
           One
           ,
           and
           each
           of
           
           them
           to
           contribute
           to
           the
           Charge
           thereof
           ,
           not
           by
           bringing
           them
           to
           an
           equal
           Pound-rate
           on
           their
           Lands
           and
           Personal
           Estates
           ,
           which
           I
           fear
           will
           discourage
           them
           from
           uniting
           ;
           but
           by
           taxing
           every
           Parish
           according
           to
           what
           it
           paid
           before
           ,
           there
           not
           being
           the
           same
           Parity
           of
           Reason
           for
           this
           way
           of
           Rating
           in
           the
           Hundreds
           ,
           as
           there
           is
           in
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           ;
           because
           in
           the
           Hundreds
           the
           Parishes
           do
           not
           receive
           an
           equal
           Benefit
           from
           the
           Labour
           of
           the
           Poor
           of
           other
           Parishes
           ,
           as
           they
           do
           in
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           ;
           yet
           this
           may
           be
           referred
           to
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           to
           proportion
           ,
           which
           ,
           I
           humbly
           conceive
           ,
           is
           all
           can
           be
           done
           ,
           except
           you
           make
           this
           Law
           compulsive
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Sums
           of
           Money
           to
           be
           raised
           for
           this
           Work
           ,
           shall
           not
           exceed
           what
           was
           paid
           in
           one
           of
           the
           last
           Three
           Years
           for
           the
           Maintenance
           of
           the
           Poor
           in
           all
           the
           Parishes
           thus
           united
           .
        
         
           That
           these
           Corporations
           shall
           be
           obliged
           to
           maintain
           all
           the
           Poor
           impotent
           People
           within
           their
           Jurisdictions
           ;
           to
           provide
           Work
           for
           those
           who
           are
           willing
           ,
           and
           to
           force
           those
           to
           work
           who
           are
           idle
           ,
           and
           to
           assist
           those
           poor
           People
           whose
           Labour
           will
           not
           maintain
           their
           Charge
           .
        
         
           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
           .
           Which
           Hospitals
           ,
           Work-houses
           ,
           and
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           ,
           shall
           be
           built
           at
           a
           general
           Charge
           ,
           to
           be
           raised
           in
           proportion
           ,
           according
           as
           each
           Parish
           pays
           to
           the
           Poor
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Governours
           of
           these
           Hospitals
           ,
           Work-houses
           ,
           and
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           ,
           in
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           Corporate
           ,
           be
           the
           Mayor
           and
           Aldermen
           ,
           together
           with
           a
           number
           of
           Guardians
           chosen
           out
           of
           each
           Parish
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           Hundreds
           ,
           all
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           inhabiting
           therein
           ;
           also
           a
           number
           of
           Inhabitants
           chosen
           out
           of
           each
           Parish
           ,
           in
           proportion
           to
           the
           Sum
           of
           Money
           it
           pays
           ;
           which
           Choice
           to
           be
           made
           once
           in
           every
           year
           ,
           when
           one
           half
           of
           them
           which
           were
           first
           chosen
           shall
           go
           forth
           ,
           and
           the
           remaining
           half
           shall
           stay
           in
           for
           the
           next
           Year
           :
           The
           Electors
           in
           the
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           Corporate
           to
           be
           such
           as
           pay
           One
           penny
           
             per
          
           Week
           to
           the
           Poor
           in
           their
           own
           Rights
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           Hundreds
           ,
           the
           Freeholders
           of
           Forty
           shillings
           
             per
             Annum
             ;
          
           and
           in
           Case
           of
           the
           Death
           of
           any
           Guardian
           ,
           another
           to
           be
           chosen
           in
           his
           room
           ,
           by
           the
           Parish
           for
           which
           he
           served
           ;
           which
           Elections
           shall
           be
           made
           on
           the
           
             _____
          
           in
           Courts
           held
           in
           each
           Parish
           by
           the
           Justices
           ,
           or
           
           Churchwardens
           and
           Overseers
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           or
           the
           Constables
           .
        
         
           That
           these
           Guardians
           shall
           chuse
           a
           Governour
           ,
           Deputy-Governour
           ,
           Treasurer
           ,
           and
           Assistants
           ,
           yearly
           ;
           and
           shall
           hold
           Courts
           ,
           and
           make
           By-Laws
           for
           the
           better
           carrying
           on
           this
           Work
           ;
           shall
           appoint
           how
           many
           of
           their
           Members
           shall
           make
           a
           Court
           ;
           shall
           settle
           the
           number
           of
           their
           Assistants
           ;
           and
           shall
           adjorn
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ;
           but
           shall
           be
           obliged
           once
           in
           every
           Calander
           Month
           at
           least
           to
           hold
           a
           Court
           ;
           which
           shall
           be
           held
           by
           the
           Governour
           ,
           Deputy-Governour
           ,
           or
           one
           half
           of
           the
           Assistants
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Court
           do
           once
           in
           every
           Year
           ,
           or
           once
           in
           Six
           Months
           ,
           agree
           how
           much
           Money
           will
           be
           necessary
           for
           the
           Maintaining
           and
           Employing
           their
           Poor
           for
           the
           Year
           or
           Six
           Months
           ensuing
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           be
           certified
           in
           each
           City
           and
           Town-Corporate
           to
           the
           Mayor
           ,
           and
           Aldermen
           ,
           of
           that
           City
           and
           Town-Corporate
           ;
           and
           in
           every
           Hundred
           ,
           to
           the
           Justices
           dwelling
           within
           the
           said
           Hundred
           ,
           at
           a
           Meeting
           to
           be
           held
           for
           that
           purpose
           ;
           who
           shall
           proportion
           the
           said
           Sum
           regularly
           on
           each
           Parish
           ,
           and
           grant
           out
           their
           Warrants
           to
           the
           Churchwardens
           and
           Overseers
           of
           the
           Poor
           to
           assess
           it
           thereon
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           ,
           other
           Warrants
           to
           collect
           and
           pay
           it
           in
           to
           the
           Treasurer
           of
           the
           Corporation
           ;
           and
           if
           the
           Mayor
           ,
           and
           Aldermen
           ,
           in
           the
           Cities
           and
           Towns-Corporate
           ,
           or
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           in
           the
           Hundreds
           ,
           shall
           refuse
           or
           neglect
           by
           the
           
           space
           of
           
             _____
          
           Days
           next
           after
           such
           Certificate
           made
           to
           them
           ,
           to
           issue
           out
           their
           Warrants
           to
           the
           Churchwardens
           and
           Overseers
           of
           the
           Poor
           to
           make
           such
           Assessments
           ;
           or
           after
           such
           Assessments
           made
           by
           the
           space
           of
           
             _____
          
           Days
           ,
           to
           issue
           out
           Warrants
           for
           the
           gathering
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           paying
           it
           to
           the
           said
           Treasurer
           ,
           that
           then
           the
           several
           Corporations
           shall
           by
           their
           own
           Warrants
           under
           their
           Common
           Seal
           ,
           require
           the
           said
           Churchwardens
           and
           Overseers
           to
           do
           the
           same
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           neglect
           by
           the
           space
           of
           
             _____
          
           Days
           after
           the
           issuing
           out
           such
           Warrant
           by
           the
           Mayor
           ,
           and
           Aldermen
           ,
           in
           the
           said
           Cities
           and
           Towns-Corporate
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           in
           the
           said
           Hundreds
           ,
           or
           on
           their
           neglect
           or
           refusal
           ,
           by
           the
           said
           Corporations
           ,
           to
           make
           Assessments
           ,
           and
           gather
           and
           pay
           the
           same
           to
           the
           said
           Treasurer
           ,
           then
           the
           said
           Corporations
           shall
           have
           power
           to
           levy
           the
           same
           on
           the
           Offenders
           ,
           for
           the
           use
           of
           the
           said
           Corporations
           .
        
         
           That
           all
           charitable
           Gifts
           given
           for
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           after
           the
           erecting
           of
           these
           Corporations
           ,
           shall
           belong
           to
           that
           Corporation
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           Parish
           is
           a
           part
           ,
           to
           whom
           it
           is
           given
           .
        
         
           That
           each
           of
           these
           Corporations
           be
           one
           Body
           Politick
           in
           Law
           ,
           and
           may
           sue
           and
           be
           sued
           ,
           and
           may
           ,
           without
           Licence
           in
           Mortmain
           ,
           purchase
           ,
           take
           ,
           and
           receive
           any
           Lands
           ,
           Tenements
           ,
           or
           Heriditaments
           ,
           and
           transfer
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           any
           Goods
           and
           Charttels
           whatever
           ,
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           said
           Corporation
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           said
           Courts
           shall
           have
           these
           powers
           following
           ,
           
             viz.
             
          
        
         
         
           To
           Summon
           before
           them
           any
           Inhabitants
           within
           their
           Jurisdictions
           ,
           to
           answer
           to
           Matters
           relating
           to
           the
           said
           Corporations
           .
        
         
           To
           appoint
           a
           Common
           Seal
           or
           Seals
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           said
           Corporations
           .
        
         
           To
           buy
           Necessaries
           for
           putting
           the
           Poor
           at
           work
           .
        
         
           To
           compel
           all
           People
           who
           seek
           to
           them
           for
           Relief
           ,
           or
           ought
           to
           be
           maintained
           by
           them
           ,
           to
           dwell
           in
           their
           Hospitals
           and
           Work-houses
           .
        
         
           To
           inflict
           reasonable
           Correction
           on
           all
           poor
           Persons
           in
           their
           Hospitals
           and
           Work-houses
           .
        
         
           To
           examine
           what
           Poor
           shall
           come
           to
           reside
           in
           any
           of
           their
           Parishes
           ,
           and
           to
           send
           them
           by
           their
           Warrants
           to
           the
           place
           of
           their
           last
           legal
           Settlement
           ,
           or
           to
           bring
           them
           before
           the
           Justices
           in
           order
           thereto
           .
           (
           Appeals
           as
           before
           .
           )
        
         
           To
           apprehend
           Rogues
           ,
           Vagrants
           ,
           Beggars
           ,
           loose
           and
           disorderly
           Persons
           ,
           and
           to
           cause
           them
           to
           be
           set
           at
           work
           for
           
             _____
          
           Years
           in
           their
           Work-houses
           ,
           Hospitals
           ,
           or
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           .
        
         
           To
           chuse
           and
           entertain
           necessary
           Officers
           ,
           and
           to
           pay
           them
           out
           of
           their
           Stock
           .
        
         
           To
           certifie
           ,
           what
           Money
           will
           be
           necessary
           for
           building
           Hospitals
           ,
           Work-houses
           ,
           and
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           ,
           and
           to
           raise
           it
           as
           before
           ,
           and
           when
           raised
           ,
           to
           buy
           or
           build
           such
           Hospitals
           ,
           Work-houses
           ,
           and
           Houses
           of
           Correction
           .
        
         
           To
           set
           down
           and
           agree
           on
           what
           Terms
           they
           will
           receive
           Honorary
           Guardians
           .
        
         
           These
           Corporations
           not
           to
           have
           power
           over
           
           any
           Alms-houses
           ,
           Hospitals
           ,
           or
           other
           charitable
           Gifts
           already
           settled
           ;
           but
           that
           all
           those
           Gifts
           which
           have
           been
           given
           in
           general
           terms
           for
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           shall
           be
           in
           them
           .
        
         
           No
           Officer
           in
           these
           Corporations
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           such
           Office
           ,
           shall
           be
           liable
           to
           the
           Penalties
           mentioned
           in
           an
           Act
           made
           25
           
             Car.
          
           2.
           for
           the
           preventing
           the
           Dangers
           which
           may
           happen
           from
           Popish
           Recusants
           ;
           because
           this
           may
           keep
           out
           many
           People
           ,
           who
           may
           be
           very
           instrumental
           in
           carrying
           on
           this
           work
           .
        
         
           The
           Treasurer
           of
           these
           Corporations
           to
           account
           with
           such
           Persons
           as
           they
           shall
           appoint
           ;
           and
           to
           make
           up
           his
           Accounts
           annually
           .
        
         
           Forfeitures
           to
           be
           levied
           by
           Sale
           of
           the
           Offenders
           Goods
           ,
           by
           warrant
           under
           the
           Hand
           and
           Seal
           of
           the
           Treasurer
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Poor
           employed
           in
           the
           Woollen-Manufactures
           be
           paid
           for
           their
           Work
           in
           Money
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           Goods
           ,
           by
           all
           who
           do
           employ
           them
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           Rates
           of
           Spinning
           be
           set
           every
           Year
           by
           
             _____
          
           and
           that
           the
           pound
           of
           Wool
           delivered
           out
           to
           the
           Poor
           to
           be
           Spun
           by
           any
           Manufacturer
           ,
           do
           not
           exceed
           16
           
             oz.
             
          
        
         
           A
           Clause
           to
           secure
           those
           from
           unnecessary
           Suits
           who
           shall
           Act
           by
           virtue
           of
           this
           Law.
           
        
         
           All
           which
           is
           Humbly
           Submitted
           to
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           this
           Honourable
           Committee
           .
           
             John
             Cary.
             
          
        
      
    
     
  

