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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32833	A new discourse of trade wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants : the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our woollen manufactures, the balance of trade, and the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed and some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of depts, are humbly offered / by Josiah Child.	Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.; Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1578-1662. Small treatise against usury.	1693 (1693)	Wing C3860; ESTC R5732	114,526	332

end of the Law and the perfect Execution of his Off●ice that is suppose he should carry this poor wretch to a Iustice of the Peace and he should order the Delinquent to be Whipt and sent from Parish to Parish to the place of her Birth or last Abode which not one Iustice of twenty through pitty or other cause will do even this is a great charge upon the Country and yet the business of the Nation it self wholly undone for no sooner doth the Delinquent arrive at the place assigne● but for Shame or Idleness she presently deserts it and wanders directly back or some other way hoping for better Fortune whilst the Parish to which she is sent knowing her a Lazy and perhaps a worse qualited person is as willing to be rid of her as she is to be gone from thence If it be here retorted upon me that by my own confession much of this mischief happens by the non or ill Execution of the Laws I say better Execution then you have seen you must not expect and there was never a good Law made that was not well executed the fault of the Law causing a failure of execution it being natural to all Men to use the remedy next at hand and rest satisfied with shifting the Evil from their own Doors which in regard they can so easily do by threatning or thrusting a poor Body out of the verge of their own Parish it is unreasonable and vain to hope that ever it will be otherwise For the Laws against Inmates and empowering the Parishioners to take Security before they suffer any poor Person to Inhabit amongst them it may be they were prudent constitutions at the times they were made and before England was a place of Trade and may be so still in some Countries but I am sure in Cities and great Towns of Trade they are altogether improper and contrary to the practice of other Cities and Trading Towns abroad The Riches of a City as of a Nation consisting in the mul●itude of Inhabitants and if so you must allow Inmates or have a City of Cottages And if a right course be taken for the Sustentation of the Poor and setting them on Work you need invent no Stratagems to keep them out but rather to bring them in For the resort of Poor to a City or Nation well managed is in effect the cons●●x of Riches to that ●ity or Nation and therefore the subtil Dutch receive and relieve or employ all that come to them not enquiring what Nation much less what Parish they are of Question 3. The third Question If the defect be in our Laws how shall we find a remedy that may be ra●ional and consistent This I confess is a hard and difficult ques●ion it is one of the Ardua Regni and may very well deserve the most deliberate consideration of our wisest Counsellors And if a whole Session of Parliament were employed on this singular concern I think it would be time spent as much to the glory of God and good of this Nation as in any thing that noble and worthy Patriots of their Country can be engaged in But seeing I have adventured thus far I shall humbly proceed to offer some general proposals that have a tendency towards the effecting this great Work which being seriously thought of and debated by wiser men may be capable of such melioration as may render them in a great measure effectual to the Kingdom in general although at present to prevent that common Objection that great Mutations are dangerous I shall only propose them to be experimented in these parts of the Kingdom which are the Vitals of our body politick which being once made sound the care of the rest will not be difficult Proposition 1. First then I propose That the City of London and Westminster Burrough of Southwark and all other places within the usual Lines of Communication described in the weekly Bills of Mortality may by Act of Parliament be associated into one Province or Line of Communication for relief of the Poor 2. That there be one Assembly of men and such as they shall from time to time appoint and deputise entrusted with the care for and treasure of all the Poor within the said Pale or Line of Communication 3. That the said Assembly be incorporated by Act of Parliament with perpetual Succession by the name of Fathers of the Poor or some other honourable and significant Title 4. That all Constables Church-wardens Overseers or other Officers in all Parishes within the said Line be subordinate and accomptable to the said Fathers of the Poor and their Deputies for and in all things relating to the Poor 5. That the said Fathers of the Poor may have liberty to assess and receive into their common Treasury for relief of their Poor so much Money from every Parish as they yearly paid to that purpose any of the three Years preceding this Constitution and to compel the Payment thereof but not of more 6. That the said Fathers of the Poor and their Deputies may have very large and sufficient power in all things relating to the Poor and particularly to have and receive the charitable benevolence of all Persons once every Lord's Day in every Parish-Church and in any other Meeting of Pious Christians and at any other time or times which they shall think fit 7. That the said Fathers of the Poor and such as they shall authorize may have power to purchase Lands erect and endow Work-houses Hospitals and Houses of Correction and to exercise all other Powers relating to the Poor that any number of Iustices of the Peace now may do in their Quarter-Sessions or otherwise 8. That the said Fathers of the Poor may have Power to send such Poor beyond the Seas as they shall think fit into his Majesties Plantations taking Security for their comfortable Maintenance during their Service and for their freedom afterwards 9. That the said Fathers of the Poor may have Power to erect petty Bancks and Lumbards for the benefit of the Poor if they shall find it convenient and also to receive the one half of what is paid at all the Doors of Play-Houses and have the Patent for Farthings and to do whatever else his Majesty and the Parliament shall think fit to recommend to them or leave to their discretion 10. That the Treasure that shall be collected for this purpose be accounted sacred and that it be Felony to misapply conceal lend or convert it to any other use or purpose whatsoever 11. That there be no Oaths or other Tests imposed upon the said Fathers of the Poor at their admission to bar our Non-conformists amongst whom there will be found some excellent Instruments for this good Work and such as will constantly attend it for if they be kept out the People will be cold in their Charity and in their hopes of the success 12. That the said Fathers of the Poor may constantly wear some honourable Meddal such