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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51694	A good-work for bad times, or, A way to make England rich and happy shewing how the charge of the war if it should continue may be born without any tax or pressure to the subject, and all the poor and idle persons in this nation may be employed or set to work, by which the nation will gain more than double the charge of the war as is herein plainly set forth, and the poor of all sorts that are not able to get their living by their work may be better maintain'd than now they are, without begging, and the children be brought up to work and taught to read, write and cast accompts, and be virtuously educated so as they may be serviceable to the nation : and also money will be made plenty and trade brisk, and some, amongst a great many, of the vast advantages that will accrue to the nation by it are here set forth : most humbly dedicated to the consideration of His Majesty and the Parliament / by G. Malkin.	Malkin, G. (Gilbert)	1697 (1697)	Wing M327; ESTC R3470	12,678	13

A GOOD-WORK FOR BAD TIMES Or a WAY to Make ENGLAND Rich and Happy SHEWING How the CHARGE of the WAR if it should continue may be Born without any TAX or PRESSURE to the SVBJECT AND ALL THE Poor and Idle Persons In this NATION May be EMPLOYED or Set to WORK by which the Nation will Gain more than Double the CHARGE of the WAR as is herein plainly set forth And the Poor of all Sorts that are not able to Get their Living by their Work may be Better Maintain'd than now they are without Begging And the Children be Brought up to Work and Taught to Read Write and cast Accompts and be Virtuously Educated so as they may be Serviceable to the Nation And also MONEY will be made Plenty and TRADE Brisk And some amongst a great many of the vast Advantages that will Accrue to the Nation by it are here set forth Most humbly Dedicated to the Consideration of His MAJESTY and the PARLIAMENT By G. MALKIN THE PREFACE IT is well known that the Poor in this Nation have a Greater Revenue than any Incorporate Body or Society of Men in the Whole Kingdom have and yet they are so far from being Maintain'd or Relieved by it That they daily Increase in their Numbers the Cause of which some impute to the Defect some to the Non-execution of the Laws already in Force others to the Misapplying and Mismanagement of the Money yearly Raised For any or all which Grievances This here proposed will be a certain Remedy if His Majesty and the Parliament in their Great Wisdom do think fit to digest it into a Law so as it may not be Stifled but throughly Executed for the Good of the Whole Nation For it is well known that in Foreign Countries no people are suffered to Live idle and to Beg as they are in England altho' the English Nation hath more of its own Growth and Product and might Employ them to more Profit and Advantage than any Kingdom or Country in Europe can Employ their Poor And therefore it is hoped That His Majesty and the Parliament when they do seriously Consider the same will provide such Remedies that all the idle People in the Nation may be Employed so as that they may Earn their own Living by their Work without the Poor's Rates or Begging or Stealing To set forth a way for the doing of which is the Intent of the Author in publishing this Little Book which if put in practice will effectually do it so as that in few Years there will be no Beggars or scarcely a Thief in England for their being bred in Idleness whilst young is the Cause of there being so many both Thieves and Beggars But by this here Proposed all Children will be Bred up to Work from their Infancy so as they will know how to get their own Living without Begging or Stealing and besides there will be always Work ready for them or for any that want Work or will come to work so that none can excuse themselves by Saying they cannot get Work or else they would not do as they do which is now the common Excuse of most Beggars TO THE Courteous READERS GENTLEMEN THESE few following Lines are Published by the Author to shew to the Commonalty of England That there is a way to make the Nation Rich notwithstanding the War and all the present Wants and Pressures it now groans under for want of Money by which Trade is Decayed and also by reason of the heavy Taxes which do now lie upon it all which by the Ways herein mentioned will be taken off and amended and the Army and Navy will be better Paid than at any time yet they have been altho' the War do continue for several Years longer and all this may be done without any Tax upon the People but only the Rates that are now paid to the Poor and which will continue ever to be paid except the Nation by this Means be Eased of them which if the Ways hereafter set down be put in Practise it will in a few Years be and also the Nation will Gain by it near Double to what the Charge of the War is as will appear by this Little Book And the Author doth not doubt but that he is able to give Rational and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections that can be made against any thing herein Proposed if the Objectors please to own their Objections either in Print or cause them to be sent to Him in Writing with their Names to them And the Author hopes the Readers will not so much Censure him for want of Method rudeness of Phrase or blunt Expressions in this Book as they will be ready to excuse Him for endeavouring to shew his Love and Duty to the Publick good of the Kingdom by adding his Mite to the Treasury And that all that truly wish the Prosperity of the Nation will put their helping Hand to so good a Work by Rectifying rather than Condemning what is herein amiss and by adding to it what is wanting And the Author desires all Courteous Readers That they will please to Read this Book throughout Considerately before they condemn it and He humbly begs of the Right Honourable House of LORDS and especially of the Representatives of the Nation the Honourable House of COMMONS that they will please throughly to consider it and that all private and particular Interest being laid aside they will so Act as may Raise the drooping Spirits of this Nation and be for the Publick Good and then he hopes the Almighty will give a Blessing to their good Endeavours which is and shall ever be Prayed for by G. M. A GOOD-WORK FOR Bad Times c. WHEREIN A Plain and Easie Method is set forth to Employ the POOR and IDLE People in England and thereby to Enrich the Nation WHereas the Poor of this Nation have the greatest Revenue of any Body of Men yet they are so far from being Maintain'd by it that they rather daily Increase in their Numbers and Miseries to the Great Nuisance as well as Danger of the Publick To demonstrate which The Poor's Rates about the End of King Charles the II. were Computed and then were 665 thousand Pounds a Year and it is too well known that they have increased ever since and that in the last four or five years they are increased in some Places one Half or more and particularly in Parishes in the Liberties of Westminster So that the Poor's Rates may now modestly be thought to be Eight or nine hundred Thousand Pounds a Year if not a whole Million by which it doth appear That no Incorporate Body or Society of Men in this Nation have half so much in Revenue as the Poor have And if His Majesty and the Parliament please to pass into a Law what is here Proposed the Nation after a few Years will save all that Money which is now paid to the Poor and not only that but will Gain by the Employing