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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	quarter_n	session_n	5,031	5	10.5854	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88819	Some pitty on the poor: or, A way how poor people may be supplied with labour and relief, without begging particularly intended for the town of Marlbrough in the county of Wilts, which occasioned another short form concerning the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with an appeal to the Parliament to encourage the work.	Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714.	1675 (1675)	Wing L687A; ESTC R226680	8,510	8

a village that live by begging being able to work then the Parish to agree with some clothiers Throwster stuf or stocking-maker for 5 pound a year or as the thing is or can be agreed to furnish the 20 persons with as much work constantly as they can do and pay as others pay for the like work being as well done so in great Towns or Places of clothing one Clothier may take 20. another 20 as before so in great Cities where is much trade on silks wool hair cotton winding weaving button making or the like every Parish or Division agree with some Tradesman to provide work for 20 as aforesaid and so may rise to hundreds or thousands by the same rule so the poor may have work to do Tradesmen their work done and money also so in places where poor are encreased and have no Trade or where some great Trade is wholly decayed some other is to be sought for with discretion but where Trade at present is dead there some persons only to be set to other work or put to other places for a time and not hanker after masters for work when the Trade is so dead and hurt both 3. That all Officers in the Parish assist the men entrusted as need requires and they that collect and bring in the money and the men entrusted meet at the poor man's Office one day in every week at the time appointed to settle the work to dispose the collection money to children that learn to work and such as are in want to settle labourers and handy-craft men in constant work and old and impotent in convenient places and whatsoever they can do for the good of the Parish though not mentioned in this form 4 That not only Officers but all Inhabitants joyn in one to advance the publique good by setting aside work for days and times of want and inform at the Office what work they have and how long they can stay 5. Not only rich but the poor also in every parish be provident to get work for themselves and not live idle and disorderly causing their own misery but labour and ●●t their own bread this is that the Apostle warned 1 Thess 3.10 If any would not work he should not eat The drunkard and the glutton shall be poor and drowsiness shall cloath a man with rags Prov. 23.21 and stripes are for the back of fools Prov. 19.29 and a deceitful person shall be affamished Prov. 19.15 6. If the country also shall contribute to populous Towns then the●r doors woods hedges and other goods may be freed from them and then publike notice be given that none of the Town enter upon the ground of any person or parish that contribute for they have given so much by the year and whosoever shall be found to have stolen any thing from them that contribute are to make restitution according to the Law Gods law was that whom the Judge should condemn was to pay to his neighbour double or fourfold 7. That all housholders in every parish meet in some convenient place where this form may be read and the whole Parish with the men in trust enter into covenant to perform all that is herein and all else that may be for the general good and all the Officers of the parish and as many more of the inhabitants in the be half of the whole parish set their hands and seals to this Agreement These are some pointings but the knowledge is in the practise Now that words may come into practise for the publike good it is desired that the Parliament would give order that this short form be read by the Minister of every Parish under their Goverment it may be done as easie as to proclaim a Fast it will prevent idleness leudness drunkenness theft c. and so break the bands of wickedness and let the oppressed go free the true Fast which God hath chosen proclaim it abroad it is honourable and then to be delivered the Officers for the poor to take notice how many beg in every parish what course they have taken to supply them with labour and relief and to give in their accompts to any one who is appointed Justice of the Peace for the County one moneth before the Quarter Sessions and the Justices of every County to peruse the accompts and give them in to the Judge of the Sessions to be considered of as is need if any Officer fail of his duty or any of the Parish shall oppose or not assist that then both Officers and others so failing pay at every Sessions to the use of the poor double their rate for their neglect and if any have just cause to complain he may appeal to the Officers of the poor or to the Justices of the County or to the Judge of the Sessions or to the higher powers to which every soul is to be subject And what shall be laid upon Superiours if they shall neglect the trust committed to them When the deceit of such is laid open before the higher powers I leave to their judgement knowing that all both high and low must give an accompt to God nor do I desire to burden any mans conscience or estate but to ease them rather and to stir up the mindes of wise men to act for their own profit to compleat by practise and experience what is briefly pointed at in words just men in trust a just account and a penalty upon the unjust justly executed are as sinnews to the body of this work but if there be no man in trust no account nor penalty the work will fail Gods judgements have been long upon these Nations great differences and discontents have been seen great bloodshed and burthens have been felt great counsels and undertakings have failed who knoweth but it hath been much for the cause of the poor there have been often fastings and long prayers who stop their ears at the cry of the poor shall cry themselves and not be heard that there may not be a beggar in Israel no beggar in England Scotland or Ireland is the desire and hope of one who hath no intentions of evil in any but wish the good of all T. L. Reader I Have not written to hinder others but to stir them up who may know more variety of places trading and commerce I have considered of Cities Towns and Villages but no place have I found where some part of this Platform may not be sutable with little alteration great Cities may be divided into convenient parts that the poor impotent and labourers that live in Out-streets and Alleys may be supplyed with labour and relief from the rich Tradesmen and Merchants having several Offices of Information where poor people may make their several conditions known that means may be used for their relief and not perish as many have done to supply the poor wi●h money and not with work and government may bring the rich to poverty and the poor to idleness none can serve God themselves nor their generation better then in some honest employment Object 1. Where shall work be had for all beggars seeing they that would work haue not enough Answ Is no more work to be found Is all work improved May not some planting of Hemp and Flax and spinning of Linnen be when Woollen fails for a time Must we keep other Nations in work on Hemp and Flax and our Wool also What makes Cloth and Wool a Drug in England And is not much work done by Horse-mills Water mills Frames Engines c. that might be done with hands and one rich man begger others of that trade where one will do as much as five or ten and hand-works also deceitfully done with half work the goods hurt the buyer deceived Answ 2. If man cannot finde a way God can Israel at the Sea could not finde their way yet God made one Hagar could not finde water for the childe yet a Well was near in every City Town and Village there is work enough and money enough to be found but neglect and selfishness hath blinded the eye that men grope and cannot see the means though presented to them Object 2. The work is great and had need be set forth more large and plain Answ This short way will set many men a talking and many small sticks may make a great fire Object 3. There are many Laws and many Officers concerning the poor already Answ But where is the execution The proverb is fulfilled That which is every bodies business is no bodies business But where is the man in trust that doth not fail to order the poor the Tradesmen engaged to finde them work the penalty and just execution if any fail or higher Powers to redress all just complaints Object 4. Bad people will spoil mens work that are engaged Answ The Yarn may be as good as the Wool or Flax pay justly what they earn abate for what they spoil and they will mend but whosoever bates more they are the bad people POSTSCRIPT IF any man would know how such a great work may be effected that none perish that none want food convenient no beggar in Israel then every particular set us upon the practise that what as yet layeth hid in after times may be manifest good works are in least esteem with bad men honest undertakings may finde more neglect and opposition then encouragement but what is of God shall stand over all opposition and opposers who are to be in this the Lord's day first discovered and then confounded Gods ways are not like mans he doth great things by small means for his own glory that vain man might not boast what entertainment truth hath with heathen the like I have received in this undertaking questioning questioning and talk themselves out of the thing one objecteth one thing another another thing others fling at all and say it is impossible Powers will not do Parishes will not do it will never be like the ten Spies raise an ill report sons of Anak are there Gyants are there what shall we do with our little ones But the little ones went into the good land but their carcasses fell in the Wilderness The End