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A91131 Provision for the poore or, A briefe representative, to make knowne the way, by a fishing trade, to imploy many thousands of poore people, from eight years to ninety yeares old (although one fifth part of them be lame and blind) to keep them from begging and starving by their owne labour; as they doe in Holland, by the sayd fishing, as can bee proved by many good and sufficient merchants, and marriners in and about the citie of London. 1648 (1648) Wing P3876; Thomason 669.f.14[16]; ESTC R211090 1,574 1

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