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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87192	Londons charity inlarged, stilling the orphans cry. By the liberality of the Parliament, in granting two houses by Act, and giving a thousand pound towards the work for the imployment of the poor, and education of poor children, who many of them are destroyed in their youth for want of being under a good government and education, whereby they may be made serviceable for God, and the Commonwealth. Also this good work is much encouraged by the liberall contributions of many well-affected citizens of London, for the better carrying it on for the glory of God, the honor of the nation, and comfort of the helples poor. With a platform, how many officers needfull to govern 100 children in a work-house, with laws and orders for the schoolmaster to read to the children once a day for a time, afterwards twice a month, whereby they may be kept under a godly and civill government, to the great joy of good peopl. With other observations worthy the reading. / By S.H. a well-wisher to the nations prosperity, and the poors comfort.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing H993; Thomason E598_4; ESTC R206315	18,731	24

a poor child for nature is content with littl and grace with less Also the contributors to this good work may see the care of the Corporation is so much for the good of the City that they would competently refresh the poor and not wast and lavish the stock but that this charitabl work may be held up for ages by Gods blessing and good mens endeavor Upon the prosperity of the fishing trade for the better ease of the charg of diet if children eat fish 4 times a Week that is on Mundays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays and meat on Sabbath days and Thursdays A quarter of a pound of Beef for a child is the allowance of Christs Church Hospitall to their children and on Tuesdays a little dumpling or pudding a fare that most children delight in and this note if children be refresht in Winter with 7 meals for 10 d. ob in Summer provision is cheaper 4 Particular What profit these 100 children will bring in weekly by their labour towards this great charg Suppose after 2 or 3 months teaching by the care of the Teachers the children may be brought to earn 12 d. per week a child one with the other viz. som children tho in 2 or 3 months teaching cannot earn 12 d. per week by reason they are dull and heavy handed yet others being quick-witted and nimble-handed may earn above 12 d. per week so that one with the other they may earn 12 d. per week or more Reckon if 100 children by their labour earn 12 d. per week one with the other it amounts to per week 5 li and 5 li. per week by the yeer amounts to 260 li. The charg of Officers and diet being yeerly 461 livre. 5 s. The loss is yeerly 201 livre. 5 s. Consider then when the children come to earn 18 d. per week or more the loss will not be so great but put the ease the Corporation should lose 200 li. yeer yet the Church of God and the Commonwealth will gain by it but he that seeks his own interest above the honor of God and the Commonwealth shews himself to be no true friend to God nor the Commonwealth therefore I counsell all peopl hy and low to their uttermost advance the honor of God and the good of the Commonwealth lest they fall and perish as many great men have done of late for 't is dangerous when God and a Commonwealth eys a man as no friend to them The work of well-ordering the poor is a rare work and by it three excellent things will be produced toward a good Reformation 1 Gods honor will be set up when that that is good is advanced 2 The peopl of God will rejoyce when sin in children and others is beat down 3 The poor children will have a benefit by it because thereby they are like to be made serviceabl for the Commonwealth otherwise they wil be as thorns in the sids of the Nation wherfore I rejoyce when I see great men in hy places to have pious hearts and publick spirits such persons God and a Nation will stand for against all their enemies and he will make their enemies to be at peace with them But as for such that are enemies to this good work either by opposing it in their words and works or by starving it with their poor and small charitys I fear God hath a curse for them here or a wo for them hereafter When Christ shall say Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and it is angels And Christ will say to such Inasmuch as ye have not don it to the poor ye have not don it to me Such opposers of charitabl good works when they shall com upon their death-beds they will then wish they had given half their estates with Zacheus that they could then obtain the love of a Christ and the happiness of a Zacheus that salvation might com unto their house as it did unto his therfore I wish all rich men that desire to obtain the love of a Christ to make their hands and their eys their first executors because their last executors may deceive them as som have don Consider if children are kept under government and imployment they are the fitter for Tradesmen others and so therby made serviceabl to the Commonwealth so that the loss of 200 l. is the preserving of 100 children from ruin therefore we conclude if the City of London should lose 1000 l. per annum in this work yet they would gain by it in the preservation of 500 children and more for if children are not kept under a government they will in time grow to a generation of ungodly wretches having no fear of God before their eys and so become a dishonor to God and a burden to the Commonwealth Therefore let us judge seriously which will be the greatest loss either mony or peopl to a Commonwealth viz. whether 500 children should perish yeerly rather then the City of London should lose 1000 l. over and above their other common charity If ungodly uncharitable muck-worms should say we had rather see 500 children beg and starve yeerly rather then the City of London should lose 1000 l. yeerly towards poor childrens education and relief I would say to such unchristian like peopl as St. Peter said to Simon Magus thy mony perish with thee so say I let their mony perish with them rather then poor souls should perish for the want of so small a portion of food for a meal as I have set down before And whereas the losse of 200 li. ariseth in the dyeting of 100 children if these insuing helps may be gained the losse wil then be very little which is by way of gathering from Bakers and others who give bread one or two days a week constantly to the poor at their doors but if the poor of the work-houses might have it they would rather give it there For I understand there are many honourable and rich persons in and about London are resolved to give no more at their doors since they have heard of a Corporation appointed to regulate the poor by work and other good government therefore as Christ said Take up the fragments that nothing be lost I beleeve the practise of this wil save the City of London 500 l. per annum or more otherwise it wil be lost As I have spoken of the officers and their salleries so I desire to shew what is the cheife worke of a Steward to do and what the School-masters work is and the Cook or Suttlers is 1 The Stewards work is to keep books of accounts one book is what he receives from the Treasurer either monys or materials received from the publick store house appointed by the Corporation for the laying in of wool hemp flax c. The second Book is what commodities are delivered out to work-people in the house or abroad 3 Book is for the commodities received when t is wrought 4 Book