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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29286	Bread for the poor, or, Observations upon certain proposals lately offered to the Kings Majesty and both Houses of Parliament with some additional considerations tending to inriching of the nation ... : whereby all poor people, women and children from five years old may be comfortably employ'd to get their own livings, beggars and vagrants restrain'd, the parish charges for the poor lightned, and consequently your lands improved, rents raised ... and tradesmen encouraged, and many hundred thousand pounds a year kept at home which now goes out of the kingdom to French and other forraign commodities / by Philo-Anglicus.	Philo-Anglicus.	1678 (1678)	Wing B4337; ESTC R26450	3,479	9

BREAD for the POOR OR OBSRVATIONS Upon certain PROPOSALS Lately offered To the Kings Majesty and both Houses of PARLIAMENT With some additional Considerations tending to Inriching of the Nation and E●●rease of most necessary Manufactories amon●● us WHEREBY All Poor people Women and Children from five years old may be comfortably Employ'd to get their own Livings Beggars and Vagrants Restrain'd the Parish-Charges for the Poor Lightned And consequently our Lands improved Rents raised and yet both Farmers and Tradesmen Encouraged And many Hundred thousand pounds a year kept at home which now goes out of the Kingdom to French and ther Forraign Commodities By Philo-Anglicus Gent. With Allowance London Printed for D. M. 1678. Bread for the Poor Or Observations upon certain PROPOSALS lately offered to the King and both Houses of Parliament THe Labours of the Poor are the Mines of the Rich Manufactories and Commerce the Springs of Wealth to every Nation whence flow Power at home and the effect of that Reputation abroad so that no doubt that Prince or Nation that can gain and keep the Trade of the World will in short time bid fair to be in effect Master of the World This the FRENCH have not only understood but vigorously endeavour'd As if they aim'd to be little less formidable for their subtlety in Traffique than by the power of their Arms. For how considerably have they advanc'd their Trade and promoted their own Manufactories Still no less industriously beating down and supplanting those of their Neighbours particularly of England as amongst others for Instance our WOOLLEN-CLOTH on which they have laid such heavy Impositions as almost quite discouraged the exporting any thither Yet in the mean time bringing over vast quantities of their prohibited Trifles with the same boats at their return jilting away our Wool one Pack of which puts three of theirs into Cloth which otherwise were unserviceable and also invite over our workmen undersel us at Market and use a thousand Artifices to Ruine that Trade which once was the Glory of our Nation and made us renowned through the World These things are too apparent not to be taken notice of too dangerous not to be obviated To which purpose what remains but that we Countermine their policies and strive to improve to the utmost the Manufactories of those materials which our Kingdom does or might plentifully yield And as much discourage theirs of which our people have hitherto been too fond In order to this we cannot but observe and applaud a very profitable PROPOSAL lately made by one Mr. Richard Hains a person though to us unknown further than by his worthy Labours and that we are informed he is a Sussex-Gentleman Yet certainly his Zeal for promoting things tending to publick Good and his Industrious Genius in the happy discovery of them no less than the pains he takes to divulge them that being reduced by Authority into Practice they may accomplish the good ends desired deserves both publick notice and thanks Wherefore though he has lately printed the same yet the Book not being so generally dispers'd as might be wisht we shall presume to recite some parts of it here For Omne Bonum quo Communius eo ' Melius This Author considering the heavie Pressures most Parishes lie under to maintain their Poor who daily increase the decay of our Woollen Cloathing Trade and the vast Charge we are yearly at for Linnen Cordage c. from other Nations whereby our Treasure is exhausted and our Lands fall for want of being improved some other way besides the common ones of sowing of Corn breeding for Wool c. For Remedy does propose That there may be erected in every County of England according to its Extent or Populousness a greater or lesser VVork house or VVorking Alms-house as he properly enough calls it for so in the end and designe of the Erection it is Work for Money being a better piece of Alms to those that are able to do it than Money or Victuals without Work to lazie Vagrants In which houses the Poor may be continually employed under Sober and Religious Government in the Manufactory of Linnen Cloath Whereby he demonstrates by a modest Calculation that above thirteen hundred thousand pounds worth of Linnen Cloath may yearly be spun in those houses besides what is done in private Families Whence a triple benefit would arise 1. Those vast Sums now yearly sent out of the Nation for Linnen Cloath c. which computed by very Intelligent persons has of late cost us more than a Million per Annum may be saved 2. It will be an Employment for the weakest people not capable of stronger labour viz. Women Children and Aged now the most chargeable and set to work those hands which for the most part now are idle it being supposed there are at least 100000 Beggars or others that want a lawful Employment who hereby will not onely be removed from being chargeable but on the contrarie kept in good order may become serviceable to the Publick 3. Much Land throughout England will be greatly improved by sowing Hemp and Flax one of which may be plentifully produced in every Countie of this Kingdom to the great advantage of Farmers and consequently of Landlords To facilitare this Work he has invented an Eng●ne whereby one man may turn fifty Spinning-wheels which shall serve a hundred persons to spin with at once so that they shall have nothing to do but employ both hands to draw Tire from the Distaff and so earn nine pence a day as easily as now they can six pence as is there evidently demonstrated The Objections that may be made either to the Advantages proposed or the Method he has largely and plainly solved so that I do not perceive any thing that with any colour of reason can be started against it but he has soundly and substantially answered The Title of his Book is Proposals for building VVorking-Alms houses as the best Expedient to perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloath in England To be sold by R. Harford at the Angel in Cornhill A Piece which I cannot but seriously recommend to the reading and consideration of every good Patriot and true English-man 'T is certain when in any Nation Commodities are Imported to a greater value than what are Exported Impoverishment seems unavoidable For then our ready Money must go out to even the Ballance whence it appears A Kingdom may be in as much danger by a great Trade ill managed as by too little It seems therefore Proposable That special Care be taken to improve Commodities of our own growth and manufacture and restrain the bringing in of Superfluities and Unnecessaries Hence 't is considerable whether the prohibiting of that mightie Glut of French VVine may not be advisable and the promoting of Cider or other English Liquors altogether as pleasant and probably much more wholsome because more agreeable to English bodies in its stead The Decrease of his Majesties Customs may easily be supplied by the great wisdom of the Nation another way Furthermore since the first Riches of any Nation is the multitude of its Inhabitants and that we are like to have great occasion for People as well to be employ'd in profitable Manufactories at home as necessary Defence abroad 't is sad to consider how many Thousands of his Majesties Subjects are yearly ruined by unjust Vexations and trivial Suits their bodies buried alive in Prisons and their Families reduced to a Parish-charge This within the Liberties of London is in a good measure avoided by that excellent Court establisht by King James P. M. deservedly call'd The Court of Conscience Judicaturs of like nature 't is conceived might be as commodiously erected in the Suburbs of that Citie and other grand Corporations where they are more necessary by reason of a greater confluence there of People mean and Indigent the common Prey of Brokers Tallymen Bum-bayliffs c. Indeed the whole business of Arrests and Imprisonment at least by Capias before Judgment deserves Consideration if not Regulation 'T is certain From the beginning it was not so Nor shall I dispute what our Ancestors did to make Trusting fools wise or Ticking knaves honest However the present Course seems a little incongruous 1. In Nature consequently in Law nothing being destrainable but what can satisfie which must be an Estate either in Land or Goods For a mans body is neither Saleable with us nor Eatable 2. In Discretion the Creditor hereby disabling the Debtor renders his Debt more desperate 3. In reason of State depriving the Soveraign of his Subjects whose bodies thus immur'd might otherwise be serviceable in Peace or War 4. In Justice and Conscience that a man should be debarr'd of his Liberty the greatest Enjoyment Temporal meerly on a Suggestion before it be judicially proved that he is either a Debtor or Trespasser Experience witnessing That scarce one Arrest in ten but is either wholly causless or for spleen revenge or some inconsiderable trifle Lastly In Commerce Spendthrifts are allur'd to Rookings and the trusting Dealer is but smother'd in his own Feathers For to pack off his Wares at any Rate he readily books the loose the reach of his Purse And if his fortune fall short curses his Confidence and to eke out his revenge takes forth a Capias for his Carcass which proves but throwing good money after 〈…〉 one Crawls out Twenty are swallowed 〈…〉 or devoured by excessive Fees and Debaucheries commonly incident to Goals In a word 'T is both a pity and a shame honest men meerly because poor should be kept a starving in Prisons and as for rich Knaves they do not regard them 'T is a good Maxime No man ought to be wiser than the Law yet 't is hop'd what tends to Publick Advantage may with modesty and due submission be offered to Consideration And 't is with that becoming deference these few Hints are tendred to that Great Authority which has Power if thought meet to make such variations as shall be necessary whose Consultations may the Everlasting Counsellor bless with Unanimity and Success for the Good of his Church and Prosperity of this Nation FINIS