Category: History - British

An Essay Towards Regulating the Trade, and Employing the Poor of This Kingdom Whereunto is Added, an Essay Towards Paying Off the Publick Debts

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9. Part 9

_First_, We Voted that the Poor of the City should be visited in their respective Parishes, and that new Poor’s Rates should be made; and accordingly we ordered the Guardians of...

6. Part 6

In the Management of things of much less moment, we employ such who are supposed to understand what they undertake, and believe they cannot be carryed on without them; Whilst th...

8. Part 8

And to the intent that the said Guardians so Elected out of the said Wards may have perpetual Succession, Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said respect...

7. Part 7

It seems also convenient, that these Work-houses, when setled in Cities and great Towns, should not be only Parochial, but one or more in each Place, as will best suit it; which...

1. Part 1

Pag. 22. line 28. between the Words (Stuffs) and the word (which) add the Word (Imported.) p. 31. i. l. 31. for the Word (If) r. (In) p. 90. l. 24. instead of (a made) r. (made...

3. Part 3

Nor is there such a safe and settled Course of Remittances from place to place as Trade and the other Occasions of the Nation do require; Men often times paying their Money for...

2. Part 2

’Twas the Act of Prohibition made formerly in _England_, that first usher’d them into a Foreign Trade, their sole Dependance before that time being on our Markets, and from henc...

5. Part 5

These People were formerly the great Navigators of the World, as appears by their many Discoveries, both in the _East_ and _West-Indies_, besides the several Islands of the _Azo...

4. Part 4

To all which I answer; That tho’ I allow the last Proposition to be true, that People are the Wealth of a Nation, yet it can only be so, where we find Imployment for them, other...

10. Part 10

Seeing then, that nothing but the same Power which first Constituted this Bank can destroy it, (a Power with whom we Intrust our Lives, Liberties, and Estates) I cannot see the...