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Title: 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

Author: Richard Haines

Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15102]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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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.

_LONDON_,

Printed by _W.G._ for _R. Harford_, at the Sign of the
_Angel_ in _Cornhil_, 1677.

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_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_.

WHEREBY,

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.

II. Many Hundred Thousand Pounds kept at home, which now every year goes
out of the Kingdom for _Linnen_, whereby our Wealth becomes a prey to other
Nations.

III. Much Land improved in every County to great advantage of Landlord and
Tenant.

_Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the great Wisdom of
the whole Nation, now Assembled in Parliament_.

Considering the great Complaints of Poverty, the heavy Burdens most
Parishes lie under to maintain their Poor, which daily encrease; the Swarms
of Beggars, Vagrants and Idle People in City and Countrey; the great, and
'tis fear'd, irrecoverable decay of our Ancient Trade for Woollen Cloth;
the vast Charge we are yearly at in purchasing Linnen, _&c._ from other
Nations, whereby our Treasure is exhausted, and our Lands fall for want of
being improved some other way, besides planting Corn, breeding for Wool,
_&c._ Which are become of so low