Category: History - British

Proposals for Building, in Every County, a Working-Alms-House or Hospital as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth

Haines, Richard, 1633-1685· 3 chapters· 8,205 words

I. All Poor people and their Children from five or six years old may be employed and maintained; as also all Beggars, Vagrants, _&c._ restrained and for ever prevented, and so all Parishes eased of that intolerable Burden.

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I. All Poor people and their Children from five or six years old may be employed and maintained; as also all Beggars, Vagrants, _&c._ restrained and for ever prevented, and so a...

2. Part 2

And most true it is, there's no one Manufactory in _England_ so generally profitable as this may be made, especially to be raised from Land, with so little hurt done to the same...

3. Part 3

Wherefore upon these several _weighty_ considerations, and for that, besides the _Princely_ Encouragement before-mentioned, I have had the Approbation of that great lover of Ing...