A collection of pamphlets concerning the poor : with abstracts of the poor's rates; expences of different houses of industry, &c. and observations by the editor.

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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Giving alms no charity.

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A collection of pamphlets concerning the poor : with abstracts of the poor's rates; expences of different houses of industry, &c. and observations by the editor.