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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37358	A Present remedy for the poor, or, The most probable means to provide well for the poor of the nation to free us in time from paying the poors rates, and deliver us now from the publick nusance of beggars, humbly submitted to the wisdom of the next sessions of Parliament.	M. D.	1700 (1700)	Wing D62; ESTC R14418	11,317	16

Trades are to be distinct with the Spinning-rooms Infirmary for Maim'd and Cripples for Old and unable to work and a Nursery for Bastards and Orphans with a Chappel of an oval Figure with Galleries round Theatrewise the Pulpit and Desk near the middle the Model I offer to give able to contain greater numbers than any of our Churches in a lesser Compass The Ministers and School masters Lodgings at one end the Apothecaries at the other By this means care will be taken both of their Souls and Bodies All the Poor to be lodg'd at the discretion of the Governour to be provided at the publick Charge with Clothes all of one color in every House Linen Tools Beds and Beddings with other Conveniencies And they are to fetch from the Governor or his Deputy Wool Flax Hemp Iron Leather c. and when return'd to be allowed as other Masters give or rather more So that unless such as are able to work employ themselves they are not to eat Laws are to be prescrib'd to every House which they must religiously observe such Laws as are agreeable with our holy Religion the Laws of the Land and the good and peace of such Societies And such as are not able to work to be provided for but what every one can do he is to be directed by the Governours and furnish'd with Materials accordingly for the Governor is to have an oversight over all the Offices of his House to advise direct incourage every one to do his Duty And for the better managing of a Trade it is convenient that four or more Merchants in London should associat to furnish and take off such Commodities and Manufactures as are there made and in the Custody of the Governors in their several Ware-houses in the said Great House and that these Merchants should have their Correspondents in several Parts of England to buy off such Manufactures made some for ready Mony some upon trust as they can agree and vent the same abroad and have Returns The Governors are to keep an account of all such Monies received and paid and to whom what Benefit is made of the Work and to be answerable to the Justices at their Sessions The Governors shall receive from each Parish weekly or monthly what each Parish was wont to pay to their several Poor for some years until a stock of Mony can be raised and to prevent Frauds severe Penalties must be imposed upon Offenders and an account must be publish'd and printed yearly that the Nation may see that there is no cozenage Let every Governor imploy some in making of Sails Ropes Nets and other things for Shipping and Fishing and when they have Youths able and willing for the Seas let them out of the publick Stock buy one or more Boats or convenient Busses or Vessels at Sea to belong to every House and that all the Fish taken shall be brought thither if not too far from the Seas and dispos'd of at the Governour 's Discretion allowing a Subsistence and Salary to their Agents By this means the Shipping and Fishing Trade will be incouraged And if at any time poor Families have no Work who belong not to these Houses there they shall be furnish'd with Wool Hemp c. and other Materials for them and their Families So that these Houses may imploy many more than are shut within the Walls If any are sturdy unruly or refuse to work or run away a course may be taken to remedy that and other accidents A severe Law must be made to punish Officers of Parishes that neglect to carry them back and others that offer to give them any relief and such Penalties and Fines are to be return'd and paid in to the Governors of such Houses together with the Persons of such Run-aways No maintenance is to be allowed them but within the House and that proportion'd to their deservings If they run away again let them be whip'd publickly and be carried back as often as they shall thus escape Now if any poor Families be not able to subsist by reason of Children and their Parents cannot well be spar'd from the Neighbourhood because of their handy work let the eldest of their Children be sent to these Houses first taught to read write and cipher and to be put to such Trades and Masters in these Houses as may teach them their Craft and Skill So that the Officers of every Parish shall not need to give any weekly allowance to such poor Parents and in a little time when a considerable Fund may be rais'd by such Trade and Working no Poors-Rates will be any more gather'd in the Nation If any sturdy Beggars be incorrigible let the Governors with the consent of the Justices at the publick Sessions have Power to transport such unruly Persons beyond Sea if they be young and fit for Travelling to our Western Plantations or to send them to severer Houses to a straiter Confinement there to be dealt with according to Law till they shall resolve to amend Let every such House have convenient Privileges granted to it to incourage the Poor to be industrious Let their inferiour Officers be all annually chosen by themselves with the assistance of the Governor and his Deputy who alone must be appointed by the Government Let the Commodities and Manufactures made in such Houses be freed from Customs or pay not so much as others when exported out of the Land for a limited time Let it be in the Power of the Governors of such Houses near Seaport-Towns and other places with the consent of such Persons of their Societies as will of their own accord to plant in the West Indies and such Plantations to belong to the Governors and their Houses and to the Parties so sent as they shall agree By which means they may vent a great many of their Manufactures made in their Work-houses and have Returns in Sugars Tobacco c. Let there be a Prebendary or two belong to each House or a Benefice or spiritual Living adjoining for the incouragement of the Minister and School-master and let that be to them instead of a Salary to maintain them Let some other publick Incouragement or Income be appointed for the Physician to incourage him also Let every Child within the House be first taught to read write cipher and other necessary Learning with the Principles of true Religion by the Minister and his Reader or School-master and let constant Catechising and expounding upon the Catechism in a familiar way be practis'd every holy day and Sunday in the afternoon and Prayers twice a week on the working days or oftner if it be convenient And let all within the House come or be brought to the Divine Service at least every Sabbath Day if Sickness hinders not Let all within the House live in a loving and courteous manner abstaining from Swearing Cursing Scolding or opprobrious Language according to the Laws there to be observed And let them buy their Necessaries of one another that

their Mony may there circulate within themselves and incourage their Industry and Labor And for a greater incouragement to such charitable Houses let the Governor of his Deputy and other Officers with the Approbation of the Justices of the County have Power to buy Lands Tenements and other Rents which may belong to such Houses for ever and to receive the benefit of any Gifts or Legacies c. which religious Persons shall bestow upon them for the Repair of their Houses and the greater incouragement of the Poor Now for the maintenance of such Governors and Deputy-Governors without taking any thing from the publick Monies I offer to lay down an easy and practicable Method which I doubt not but will be approv'd of And besides when the Trade shall grow considerable in these Houses let them have but the ordinary Fees of Factors and Agents beyond Sea or at home that will greatly increase their first Incomes and cause them to live with Splendor and Plenty without diminishing any thing from the Poors Mony or the Publick Stock And for the intire Suppression of the begging Trade let it be lawful for all poor Prisoners who have nothing to subsist upon but Charity to turn themselves over to these Work-houses to get their living and what they can spare out of their Work let it be imployed to pay their Creditors as the Wisdom of the Nation shall think fit But how shall such Houses be erected and who shall pay for the same I answer Several easy and practicable Means may be proposed for the raising sufficient Sums of Mony for the speedy building of Houses First let a Collection be made by way of a Brief in every County for the benefit of that County and the Monies so collected be return'd into the hands of the Sheriff or his Deputy to pay off the Workmen and buy Materials Let all Commutations for Whoredom and Bastardy be likewise converted to this publick Use and the Mony to remain in the hands of the Chancellor or Official for this purpose to be commanded from thence by the order of the Government And let a strict Inquiry be made and all Persons guilty be oblig'd either to fine or do penance Truly this Mony can never be better imployed for I have seen in the dispensing Deeds of the Ecclesiastical Courts that it is to be imployed Ad usum Pauperum alios pios usus To the use of the Poor and other religious Uses Let all Prebendaries and Dignities of the Church which shall be hereafter bestowed pay a year or two years Rent or a certain Proportion to be charg'd at the Discretion of our Parliament and let this continue until such time as these Houses so erected be paid for And let all Benefices above 100 l. per annum pay the Overplus into the Bishops hands or his Receiver for two years after Induction And let the Clerk oblige himself by Bond or be forc'd by Law to pay the same and let him be instituted and inducted upon that condition Let all such as now injoy great Benefices multiplicity of Prebendaries and other Pluralities be charg'd to this pious Work as the Wisdom of our Parliament shall think fit But all Deans Canons Prebendaries and Sine Cures ought in reason to contribute For these Estates were first granted by the religious Donors ad perpetuam Eleemosynam not only for the incouragement of Learning for the maintenance of the Service of God for a more splendid Government of the Church but for the Benefit and Comfort of the Poor in every County where they had no Laws then to gather Taxes for their relief Let also some certain Fines to be impos'd by the Government at the Assizes and Sessions and in Courts of Judicature upon Offenders be appropriated to the Building of these convenient Houses in the several Counties where the Offences were committed And for a more effectual carrying on of this good Work let four or more Persons be appointed as publick Commissioners to push it on and bring it to perfection Let them divide the Nation between them and visit every County and there advise with the Justices for convenient places to erect such Work-house for the Poor Let them be authoris'd by the Government to take waste Ground to agree with the Proprietors and Workmen and to appoint with the consent of the Justices Governors and Deputy-Governors to oversee the Workmen and hasten the Building according to the first Pattern to be erected near the City of London And let them make such Regulations as shall be convenient And let them order a stock of Hemp and other Commodities and Monies to be deliver'd and paid to the Governors of the Poor out of the Monies collected in each County And for their incouragement let such Persons have some publick Office of Profit or Advantage bestowed upon them to incourage them and defray their Charges that what they do may be gratis in relation to the Poor or their Stock and nothing may be diminish'd out of it but wholly spent for the relief and imployment of such poor Persons whose whole Families may be admitted and all put to work according to their several Abilities and Ages Some other easy Methods may be contrived to raise Mony for the building of these Houses which may not in any wise burden the Commonalty of the Nation For instance let all great Offices in Law and other profitable imploys in Church and State be charg'd with the payment of some Proportion of such large Revenues for this publick Good I doubt not but those worthy Gentlemen whom God hath bless'd with plentiful Estates either in Church Law or Government will not grudg to allow something out of their abundance to this pious Work for the easement of their Neighbours and themselves If these Proposals may be accepted and the Methods here laid down be found agreeing with the Wisdom of our Governors as it is both rational just and feasible I doubt not but to shew another Expedient for the raising of a considerable Sum of Mony with the general Applause of the whole Nation if any of these former Methods displease the Humor or Stinginess of such as are desired to contribute or if the Fund so rais'd be not sufficient to compleat this great Work that is to erect the Work-houses and buy in to them a sufficient Stock of the Growth of the Country as may imploy all the idle and lazy Poor of the Nation Let there be an inquiry made into two or three grand Abuses in the Nation and such as are found guilty be depriv'd of their unjust gain that is what they for some years have usurp'd and enjoyed contrary to the known Laws of the Land and be oblig'd to quit and to refund for two or three years back what they have thus taken I dare be bold to promise a considerable Sum either into the King's Exchequer or for the carrying on this Work And for the City of London for which I have always