Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

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
A95596	Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure. Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T.	S. T. (Silvanus Taylor)	1652 (1652)	Wing T552; Thomason E663_6; ESTC R203768	31,192	59

they must There are many Commons in England that have many hundred of such Families living on them in this the Commons in England are fruitfull for they send forth yearly many thousand idle wandring beggers which have not done a daies work to the benefit of the Common-wealth in their lives for indeed if they have not attained to the use of labour in their youth they seldome ever betake themselves to it when of riper years The remedies will be in taking away the occasion and in putting oportunities of being rich into their hand whereby they may be incouraged to labour but if neither of these will do then the means must be constraint The first and greatest remedy will be the suppressing of many thousand Alehouses in England and that by apportioning a certain number to each County a small number will serve unlesse on Roads and Market Townes not to be exceeded upon a great penalty to be on the Justices of Peace for every Alehouse licensed above the number appointed to that County all Alehouses to be licensed at a Quarter Sessions and not otherwise and there to be registred that so they may be sure to keep within the number and let there be Certificate sent to the chiefe Officer in every Parish of the number and the names of all such that shall be licensed in the said Parish If any sell without such license or lesse then measure in any Parish after notice given to the chiefe Officer he neglecting to afflict the punishment which shall be appointed for such offenders shall have a penalty laid on him the one half to go to the informer the other to the poor of the same Parish And let the informer have the third penny of all fines that shall be set on Alefellers Tiplers or Gamesters A second remedy will be inclosing of Commons that so there be no room left for idlenesse and that those now Cottagers may have such a competent measure of land laid to their Cottages that may invite their children to labor A third remedy is the erecting of workhouses and setting up such a manufactory that may invite to labours not by force but where you meet with resolute idle persons such constrain to the mill or some other hard labour then he that will not work let him not eat mans nature is more easily drawn then driven I have often seen in and about London Porters take up such burthens for the rewards sake that would have broke a good horses back and poor men that carry sacks of coals from the water side that make their knees to buckle and their backs to bend and these voluntarily taken up for the pays sake is done with much willingnesse but if halfe that weight should have been forced on them by authority they would have fallen down under it crying out upon oppression and cruelty as not possible to be undergone therefore my advice is that such works be found out and such wages given that may invite them to a willing indeavour If in these workhouses they earne but half their livelihood it will be a great saving to the Common-wealth as I have already showne in Section the ninth And I believe if they were but for some time unwonted of their idle course they would then be quickly ashamed of it and as well find out imployment themselves as the poor in the Netherlands or any other place do The severall wayes of imployment were too long here to insist on and should I come to particulars fitter for a debate then a pen yet there must be a large latitude still left to the wisdome of those that shall be intrusted in the ordering of this affaire For respect herein must be had to each commodity of an English producture and that what of that is transported doe not procure an over-balance and so that be said of us on this account what was said on another by a great master in humane affaires to wit that England is a great Animal and not to be destroyed but by it selfe Prov. 27. 23 24 25. Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks and look well to thy herds Thy hay appeareth and the tender grasse sheweth it self and herbs of the mountains are gathered The lambs are for thy cloathing and the goats are the price of thy field And thou shalt have goats milk enough for thy food for the food of thy houshold and for maintenance of thy maidens FINIS