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A43803	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.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing H200A; ESTC R218612	14,626	26

ENGLAND'S Weal Prosperity PROPOSED OR REASONS For Erecting Publick VVork-Houses In every COVNTY 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 〈…〉 To the Right Honourable Sir PATIENCE WARD Knt. Lord MAYOR of LONDON My Lord THough the ensuing Reasons by the Nature of the Thing are addressed to the Honourable House of Commons whereof you are so valuable a Member It being that Great Council whose Vnited Votes can alone promote with Effect what is herein humbly offered Yet my Lord by reason this Work is of very great Import and as in all such Cases requires the more time to demonstrate the Value Vsefulness Necessity and Feaseableness thereof or otherwise is apt to be neglected or thrown by Therefore I have taken the boldness to Dedicate the same in particular to your Honour as a most proper Advocate and Patron humbly intreating that as you are a known Publick Spirited Promoter and Encourager of all things tending to the Weal Safety and Prosperity of the King and Kingdom so your Honour would be pleased to recommend these Reasons and the Matter Proposed to that Honourable House and to improve your Interest to have the same read before them If after your Perusal your Honour shall find them worthy of such your Countenance and Approbation wherein I hope you will do your King City and Country no inconsiderable Service as well as a very great Honour to My Lord Your Lordship 's most Humble Servant Richard Haines England's Weal and Prosperity Proposed Or Reasons for the Erecting Publick Work-Houses in every County c. FOrasmuch as our Wool is the main Support of that Trade which maintains and encreases the Wealth Strength and Glory of the English Nation therefore of all Commodities of our own Growth this ought to be most carefully maintained and encouraged in that way it is THVS SERVICEABLE which consists not in the Exportation of unwrought Wooll nor in the Consumption of our Woollen-Draperies at Home but in the Exportations of and quick Markets for our Woollen-Draperies abroad as fast as they can be made and spared at home That this may be done and that for the doing thereof Publick Work-Houses to be Erected in every County will be a most certain and effectual Expedient These following Reasons are prepared for the Satisfaction of all concern'd therein Reason I. Because such Work-Houses are no New Project but have already in Fact proved the best Expedients to bring all Idle poor People Beggars Vagrants c. into such a Habit of Industry that there is not a Beggar c. bred up or suffered in those Countries where such Houses are Erected and well-governed Reason II. Because without such Houses in which such poor and now idle People may be kept to Labour under good Government it is altogether improbable to convert them to such Habit of industry and keep them employed in such profitable Manufactures by which the Trade Wealth and Safety of the Kingdom may be promoted Reason III. Because as by these Expedients there may not be any Beggars in the Nation so shall not they or any poor People have occasion to complain for want of an honest Employment Food Raiment or Habitation Reason IV. Because by these Expedients an Hundred or two Hundred Thousand People may be suddainly converted to their own and the Nations present and future Happiness and as it hath been the fatal Practice of this Nation to breed up 30 or 40000 persons every Year to be maintain'd for Begging c. So by these Expedients they may breed up every Year successively 30 or 40000 ingenious Cloth-makers who may convert Wool enough to make as much Cloth as may encrease the Wealth of the Nation many Hundred Thousand pounds per Annum Reason V. Because for want of such Expedients whereby Industry and the Woollen Manufactory may be effectually promoted our Wooll is fallen from 12 d. to 6 d. per pound by reason that the number of the people at present employed therein are not able to convert our Wooll half so fast as it grows so that it seems very unreasonable to prohibit the Exportation of unwrought Wooll whilst the Expedients by which it may be converted at Home are rejected Reason VI. Because that as our Clothiers and Merchants do infallibly demonstrate that the Exportation of unwrought Wooll hath destroyed our Forreign Markets for the Sale of our Cloth so it is as easie to be demonstrated that had not such quantities of English and Irish Wooll been exported as at present there is in abundance it would have fallen from 12 d. to 3 d. per pound because as the Stock of Wooll increases the Price must decrease So that there is no way to raise the Price of Wooll nor yet to keep it up where it is but either the Nation will be brought to extreme Poverty or made to encrease mightily in Wealth and Power viz. either we must Export our Wooll asdaily especially within these last nine Months we do to those that destroy our Trade thereby or bring all idle poor people to Industry to convert it at Home as fast as it grows by which means only our Wooll will soon mount to 12 d. yea 18 d. per pound which will also quickly remove the occasion for the Exportation thereof This being done the Woollen Manufactures of France Flanders c. will soon be destroyed to that degree as not to hinder the Sale of ours seeing they cannot make Cloth without a Mixture of our Wool but on very unequal Terms as our Clothiers have affirmed before a Committee of the last Long Parliament Wherefore as the ready way to destroy the Wealth and Trade of our Nation is to export our Wooll and maintain our many thousands of Poor in Idleness and Debauchery So the most certain Expedient by which we may revive and regain the Woollen Manufactory is to prosecute these Expedients that will bring all the people aforesaid to Industry By which we may raise the price of Wooll at Home and afford our Cloth and Draperies cheaper than our Supplanters in Markets Abroad which is not to be done but by the Expedients proposed Obj. If it be objected That if our Wool should be raised to 18 d. c. per pound then other

our Saviour's own words We know that God always had a Nation Church and People in all Ages although in every Age subject to Error in an high degree so also there was a Babylon c. as a Rod in the Hand of God to correct them for their wilful Failings and Offences Litteral-Babylon in the time of the Law and Mystery-Babylon in the time of the Gospel The First to correct his People Kings and Princes of Israel And the Last to correct his own Christian Kings Princes and Churches under the Gospel This we know is true if we believe the Prophets Christ and the Apostles and modern Writings And as true it is also that the Rod is now in an high manner lifted up against the whole Land the King and the Church appointed so that Misery Desolation Death and unmerciful Cruelties do as it were stare in our Faces and nothing remains for our Comfort but this namely That this Revengful and Bloody Rod is in the Hands of a Gracious and Merciful God who will assuredly throw it into the Fire before it ever hurt us if the Crying Sins by which his most Holy Majesty is most highly provoked and displeased be put away whereof this ever was and now at this time is one of the most intollerable and provoking Evils namely The lamentable Condition of those many Thousands of Poor People Widdows and Fatherless Children the many Thousands that have been and are bred up in Ignorance Idleness and all manner of Debaucheries unserviceable to the Nation unfit for Church-members and that live and die most miserably And for this very thing which the Most High could never endure God was offended and his Wrath kindled against his own People their Kings and Nation to that Degree that he abhorr'd their most Solemn Services and Worship which himself had commanded Yea when by Fasting Praying c. they cried unto him he would not hear nor regard it was Iniquity even their Solemn Meeting until this intollerable thing was effectually reform'd Which is an infallible Demonstration that God hath a greater Regard to the Poor c. than he had to the External Religion and Worship which himself commanded And for this insufferable Crime he delivered his People into the Hands of the King of Babylon who worshipped Images c. Now that the Sum of this is true Moses and all the Prophets do testifie And that the same Love and Care for the one and his Indignation against the other remains and continues to this day is also as certain Witness our Saviour's Parable of the Rich Man and the Beggar when the Rich Man for being regardless of the Beggar 's Condition lift up his Eyes in the Flames of Hell and finding it impossible to obtain Ease or Relief made earnest Request in the behalf of his Brethren That a Messenger might be sent to testifie the Verity of the matter that they might repent c. But behold the Answer from Heaven was No let them alone they have Moses and the Prophets viz. their Sayings and Writings if they will not hear them neither will they be perswaded if one arose from the Dead Which doth plainly shew that the Will and Mind of God delivered by Moses and the Prophets in this matter still remains so unchangeable that if a man should keep all the Commandements of God besides and offend in this matter it will profit him nothing As is positively declared by Christ when upon this very occasion he turned himself from the hopeful Rich Man whom he loved and said How hard is it for a Rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of God It is easier for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle than for a Rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven So that for a Nation or Person to have more Love or Regard to Worldly Wealth than to the low and despicable Poor though Beggars or to defer the relieving them appears to be one of the highest provoking Sins for which God will be aveng'd and to sum up the whole it amounts to this that although we worship no false God nor bow to any Image but do worship the true God according to his Appointments do Fast pray and humble our selves before him and keep all the rest of his Commandments from our Youth up yet if we judge not the Cause of the Fatherless and the Right of the Needy shall not I visit for these things saith God Shall not my Soul be aveng'd upon such a Nation as this God Almighty grant that this may never be said of England And to prevent the dreadful Stroke of Babylon May it please this Honourable House To Consider That as National Sins and Provocations incur the Displeasure of Heaven so likewise to reflect how much this present Parliament may concilliate to themselves and this poor Nation the Favour and Blessing of the Almighty and also how gloriously the Renown shall to all Posterity be Recorded when by one Act more than an Hundred Thousand shall be converted as it were at once in your day to their own and the whole Nations present and future Happiness 〈…〉 Posterity yea every individual in the Kingdom in all Ages may call you Blessed Wherefore if this Honourable House do believe that what I have with all Humility and Zeal to the Publick offered to your Grave and Pious Consideration be well pleasing to God and accordingly be approved of by this Honourable House as it is by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty who hath been Graciously pleas'd to declare that he would be ready in his Station to encourage it all he could then my humble Petition to this Honourable House is That I may obtain leave to bring in a Bill which I have prepared containing such Clauses Rules and Methods as may with such Corrections and Amendments as this Honourable House shall think meet in short time compass the Design in such manner that all Cheats and Frauds may be so far prevented that the Contributers cannot be injured unless they themselves will willfully be regardless of their own Interest together with such Rules and Methods for prosecuting the Design as may for ever secure it from failing or ceasing after it is begun FINIS A METHOD OF GOVERNMENT FOR SUCH Publick Working ALMS-HOUSES As may be Erected in every County for bringing all idle hands to Industry AS The best known Expedient for restoring and advancing the Woollen Manufacture HUMBLY Offered to the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY and both Houses of PARLIAMENT BY R. Haines With Allowance A Method of Government for Publick Working Alms-houses c. THE Scope or End aimed at and promised by my former Proposals is That all the Wool of England and what Scotland and Ireland have to spare may be Manufactured in England as fast as it grows and arises on such Terms as that all the Cloth we have to spare being exported may find quick Markets as fast as 't is made The Expedients or means to Effect All