Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.

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Plan pour assister, corriger, & emploier tous les pauvres de la Grande Bretagne Par le moien d'une loi générale que l'on propose de subsistuer à trente autres qui sont actuellemont en force. Par Ce nouvel arrangement on pourvoit à l'entretien de rous les pauvres qui sont hors d'état de travailler; on fournit de l'Ouvrage à tous ceux qui peuvent le faire; on emploie ces derniers aux choses où ils sont les plus propres; on fait concourir au bien public de l'etat le bien particulier qu'on leur fair en les occupant; Et enfin on met tous les pauvres, de quelque ordre qu'ils soient, dans une situation où il ne leur sera, ni necessaire, ni permis demainder. On répond en passant, aux objections les plus considerables que l'on peut faire contre ce projet, en attendant que dans un ouvrage à part, qui paroîtra bien-tôt, on y donne un réponse plus érendue.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: 1721
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A proposal for relieving, reforming and employing all the poor of Great Britain , by vertue of one desired general law, relating to the poor, instead of thirty statutes, now in force, concerning the premises. And Hereby All these Poor, who thro' Infancy, Age, or Infirmities, are Incapable of Labour, will be comfortably Maintain'd, and none then Obliged, or Permitted to beg: And all our Capable Poor, will be Profitably Employ'd, for the Common Good of both King and Kingdom. And the most material Objections rais'd, against this Proposal. And a full Answer, to all those Objections, will be shortly publish'd.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: Printed in the Year. 1721
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Bishop Burnet's late History charg'd with great partiality and misrepresentations , to make the present, and future ages believe, that Arthur Earl of Essex, in 1683, murdered himself. But the Memory of that Great Patriot, is here vindicated from that false Charge, and it's here prov'd, that his Lordship was barbarously Murder'd, in the Tower, the third Morning after his Commitment. And Mr. Braddon, in 1683, was Prosecuted and Fin'd Two Thousand Pounds, and order'd to give Security for his good Behaviour during Life, for Endeavouring, by Lawful Means, to discover this Murder; and he was imprison'd near Five Years, before the Revolution discharg'd him. And, in 1688, and 89 Mr. Braddon prosecuted that Inquiry, before a Secret Committee of Lord's; and near Sixty Witnesses were Examin'd, in relation to that Murder; and An Abstract of their Examinations, is here Reprinted; with Remarks thereupon. And the Reason given why the Lords, upon those Examinations, came to no Resolution, in relation to the manner of his Lordship's Death. With observations upon the suppos'd poysoning of King Charles the Second; and One of the most probable Causes thereof, is here mention'd. Written by Mr. Braddon.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: [1725?]
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The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge but by making them happy, we shall remove that guilt, raise the glory, and double the wealth and strength of Great Britain ; and pay old debts without new taxes. By the Judicious Employment of the Poor (under One New General Law) and Present Taxes (without any Land-Tax) we may Justly and Gradually Discharge (within Twenty Years) All our National Debts: And whilst those Debts and Taxes are thus reducing, we shall farther receive (from the Regular Management of the Poor) much greater Benefits than the Payment of those Fifty Millions. A Due Care of the Poor is an Act of Great Piety towards Almighty God, an Act of the Greatest Humanity among Men, and of great Civil Prudence and Political Wisdom in relation to the State. - As things now are, our Populousness (which might be made the Greatest Blessing a Kingdom can have) becomes a Burden to the Nation; by breeding up whole Races, families, and Generations, in a mere Trade of Idleness, Thieving, and Beggin, and a barbarous kind of Life: which must in time prodigiously increase, and over-run the whole Face of the Kingdom, and Eat Out the very Heart thereof. Lord Chief Justice Hale, in ... upon employing the Poor.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]
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To pay old-debts without new-taxes , by charitably-relieving, politically-reforming, and judiciously employing the poor, under one new general law, we may justly and gradually discharge all our national debts, within Twenty Years, without Land-Tax, or New Imposition. And whilst these Debts, are thus gradually reducing, we may farther receive, from the Judicious Government of the Poor, much greater Benefits, than the Payment of those Sixty-Millions. And, in a Postscript, the proposed Qualifications, of the desired Corporation, for Relieving and Employing the Poor, are abstracted; and the great, and probable future Gains, of that Corporation, are particularly mentioned.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: 1723

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