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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87194	The Parliaments reformation or A worke for presbyters, elders, and deacons to engage themselves, for the education of all poore children, and imployment of all sorts of poore, that no poore body young or old may be enforced to beg within their classes in city nor country. Published for the generall good of the kingdome. / By S.H. a friend of the common-wealth.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing H995A; Thomason E349_13; ESTC R201030	4,861	8

THE Parliaments Reformation Or a Worke for Presbyters Elders and Deacons TO Engage themselves for the Education of all poore Children and imployment of all sorts of poore that no poore body young nor old may be enforced to beg within their Classes in City nor Country Published for the generall good of the Kingdome By S. H. A friend of the Common-Wealth This we commanded you he that will not worke let him not eate 2 Thes. 3.10 London Printed for Thomas Bates at the Maidenhead on Snow-hill neere Holborne Conduit 1646. The Parliaments Reformation MAny men both of Quality and others doe approve that the imployment of the poore the suppressing of idle Counterfeits and the education of all poore Children whereby that none may goe about begging or live idle in the streets is a very good work but saith some shew us which way we may begin it and what we shall do to bring it to passe To which I answer it must be a Parliaments power and command to carry on the worke My reason is because the major part of people doe never move to any good work willingly before they are commanded and the command must be upon a penalty too else they will doe little now consider who can impose a command on the Subject for the carrying on of a good worke and to lay a punishment upon the neglectors of the command but a Parliaments power When once Authority and Power is gotten from the Parliament and put into the hands of honest Gentlemen in this City of London and so throughout the whole Kingdome for the carrying on of the good work generally or else if the Honorable Parliament please to commit it to the Presbyters of every Classe throughout the Kingdome and they to assist the Deacons it will be carryed on with more care and more ease to the joy of all godly people Authority being granted there are 4. things for the Commissioners to consider on for the easie carrying on of the weighty and godly businesse of relieving and Reforming the poore of our Kingdome 1. The buying or building of houses for that purpose 2. The raising of stocke 3. Finding out imployment to imploy young and old 4. Ordering such a godly and politick government that the godly and laborious poore may be countenanced and cherished and the idle and wicked poore supprest 1. For houses it is needfull that two sorts of houses be appointed in every Classe that is a workhouse and a house of Correction those two houses will be usefull in every Classe for the relieving and reforming all sorts of poore 1. A common workhouse for all sorts of poore to resort unto I mean old and young the old some of them will be usefull to teach the young the young shall have that benefit to be taught to write and read a part every day besides doe some work to helpe relieve them here will be the benefit the Children that lye all day in the streets in playing cursing and swearing are now kept under a godly government which is an excellent step to Reformation 2. In case any should be stubborne and will not take paines nor live orderly and peaceably that then they be separated and sent to the house of correction there to remaine in hard work and hard lodging till he or she promise amendment and when he is discharged he shall not goe whether his lust as the manner is now being discharged but shall return to the workhouse from whence he came by this meanes wickednesse will be kept in subjection and this project will either reforme them that are stubborne or make them run the Country Also if we consider the great necessity of houses or Churches in great Parishes where there are little lesse then 30. or 40000. people how shall one Church or house receive them all in such a case many workhouses about London will be very needfull to keepe people together vnder government on the Sabboth day as on the weeke dayes this deserves a consideration from the Parliament for the good of the peoples soules and the preventing of Childrens playing in the streets and beggers begging on the Sabboth dayes So much for houses Secondly for stocke 2. For the raising of stock To raise a stock to imploy the poor I conceive the Country may easier doe it then the Cities in regard the Law provides them materials with little charge of mony I mean Hempe and Flax which the Law enjoynes them to sow but many parishes either for want of skill or will makes them sow none which is a great wrong to the Common-wealth and makes our poor to go almost naked And whereas many if they sowe it know not what to do with it either for want of skill or will therefore I conceive if every Classes did keep a magazin or stock of mony or materials then whatsoever hempe or flax were sowne within the Classe if any did want skill or time to manage it they might then bring it to the Magazin and there they should be payd for it either in mony or cloth and whatsoever cloth was made the Mercers and Drapers in the County to buy it to the end that they might not be wrong'd by taking away their Markets This will raise stock to imploy our poor and save our mony in our Kingdome 〈◊〉 reported above a Million of mony goes out of the Land yearly for Linnen Cloth 2. The Clothiers in the Country that make broad cloth and 〈◊〉 do imploy abundance of women and Children which is a great helpe to the stock in every Classe 3. By way of Collection and by way of charitable gifts by dying men and women there is some stock more or lesse in every Country parish to helpe imploy and succour the poor Having shew'd how the Country may have helpes to raise a stock to imploy their poor I will shew how the City of London may raise a stock with ease 1. If the Parliament will be pleased to grant an Ordinance for a collection within the City of London and 1● mile about and this mony to be imployed for the education and imployment of all Souldiers Children because many of them as well Widdowes as maim'd have a great charge of children and are very poor not able to set their Children to Schoole 2. One halfe yeares excise hereafter when things are overpast That which is given to the poor is lent unto the Lord c. 3. The 10. or 20th part of Bishops Lands and such like to maintaine English School-masters for the well governing of all sorts of poore Children 4. That all charitable gifts in every Classis may be enquired after and brought to a bank and the Elders to see to the managing of it in every parish within their Class for some parishes in a Classe may have many gifts and so raise a great stock there it lyes dead because they have but few poor to imploy it other parishes within the Class have many poor and out little stock and