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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30697	The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work.	Bush, Rice.; England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1647-12-17.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6231A; ESTC R214161	19,460	30

the price of old the excesse of Bruers and abuse of bakers which produce the like inconveniences Twelfthly A consultation with the severall Trades of London what their grievances are and how they may be remedied our fathers have left us foot-steps of their care herein as appears in the grant to Weavers to regulate disorders in their trade for seven miles round about London and divers Laws and orders tending to uphold the well-being of Joyners Carpenters Painters and other trades in and belonging to this City Thirteenthly A course be taken for removing that sleight or trick in Law called Mistaking the Case and the trying causes according to the truth of the matter all circumstances impartially considered Fourteenthly A course for preventing of cheating by morgages Judgements c. by which multitudes of families are undone and buying lands in other mens names and compounding their own debts making that land not liable to satisfie their creditors which things considered and removed would doubtlesse produce much good to this City and the whole Kingdom But yet Sir you say nothing for matter of stock To which I answer If you lessen your poor any way it is equivolent to stock but in our Propositions delivered in to the Committee of Common Counsel we propounded ten waies to raise a stock as after followeth The raising of a Stock is done First By the Parish Stocks of Monies and Lands Secondly By voluntary Contributions in the severall Parish Churches on the Lords day Fast daies Thanksgiving daies and on extraordinary occasions upon the Ministers motion Thirdly By gift of Victuals gathered at every house thrice in the week by some honest persons appointed for that purpose Fourthly By loan of Monies from some well-affected persons and to be repaid them at the years end either in money or such commodities as they shall like of Fiftly By taking the benefit of some penall Statutes Sixthly By concealed Legacies given to charitable uses Seventhly The goods and money of Pentioners that die at least such as have no children to go to the common stock as it is in Holland Eighthly By gifts of old clothes shooes boots hats and the like gathered quarterly at every house by some honest person appointed to that purpose Ninethly By Contributions of well-affected persons at the time of their death being pressed thereto by the Ministers that visit them in their sicknesse Tenthly The assistance of such persons as will take off some considerable number of poor by imploying them in their severall Trades which will be as effectuall as so much stock And if all that will not do it were better sell all the bells in our steeples then that so good and so great a work should fail it were but a little musick lost and happily many lives saved the value of the bells in London accounting four in a steeple one with another and those at twenty Pound apeece would in one hundred twenty two Parishes amount unto nine thousand six hundred and sixty Pound or could we but perswade the Citizens of London but one year to forbear altering their apparell into other fantastick fashions and lay by as much for the poor as they use to spend that way it is clearly beleeved the same would amount to four times as much as the rates of the poor come to But what need these shifts how or wherewith are the poor now maintained few working most playing begging stealing whoring cheating and the like can these by their shifts now live and could they not much better live by honest labour especially if work if stock and other helps were added to them easie to be procured if not already in our power to give and grant I beseech you let this City no longer plead excuse and live under this sin and shame leave off preferring your friends to places and priviledges to gifts and other helps and let the destitute of friends perish before your eyes and go effectually about the work else when I cease further to pleade the cause of the poor God take the cause into his own hand and it prove bitternesse in the end And now to conclude all as I never intended to satisfie every man that shall reade or hear what is here set forth so shall I not regard the censures of such who regard their own private interest more then the Publike good and are seldom pleased save in their own invention But conceiving this work to be in it self good and a work of charity and that many godly people throughout the Kingdom do daily expect the promotion of it by the power of Parliament I thought this to be one of the likeliest means to satisfie them promote and make publike to designe in these hard and miserable times with such as desire the pece and tranquillity of the Kingdom and good of their poor brethre● and in regard the work is of great consequence and the delay at the time extreamly prejudiciall I therefore resolved upon this boldnesse to put in print this short Account of our endeavours to effect the same in●ending hereby good to all hurt to none nor any just offence to any man whether concerned or not concerned in any thing exprest or hinted ●erein but as an incitation and encouragement to all active and able men to improve their interest for the publike good that so the example of London may cause the like course to be taken throughout the Kingdom and we hope the Corporation now authorized by Parliament will according to the great trust committed to them and power put into their hands without any delay vigorously and effectually prosecute the premises and I doubt not but all such as have been active for promoting the designe will still to the utmost of their power help forward and promote the same and God that enjoynes and commands this as a duty will doubtlesse reward the faithfull and zealous prosecution hereof and a blessing shall rest upon their heads which is the prayer and desire of Your 〈◊〉 friend and servant in behalf of the Poor Rice Bush FINIS READER If thou meetest with any omission or mistake be please 〈◊〉 ●ith thy pen to amend the same 1644. A notorious counterfeit cripple Mr Harris his printed Sermon A sad relation Cooks poormans case The Broker taking 120lb interest per year for 100lb stock Mr Hodges his report of two sad miseries that befell by reason of poverty Fifth particular how to effect the relief of the poor 18. Eliz. Regis an Act for setting the poor on work avoiding of idlenesse Object Answ Object Answ