Poor - Employment - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A proposal humbly dedicated to the King, Lords, and Commons of Great-Brittain : setting forth the manner how we may very profitably employ our now idle, chargeable, young, weak, feeble, and aged poor ...
Thomas ThwaitesDate: [1725?]- E-books
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An Act for calling any suspected person or persons, whose estates or principal residence are in Scotland, to appear at Edinburgh, or where it shall be judged expedient, to find bail for their good behaviour
Great BritainDate: 1746]- E-books
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The regular-government, and judicious-employment of the poor , the most probable means of raising and securing publick-credit, because the rich will be thereby made, both able, and willing, to give credit to the publick. In the second part will be humbly propos'd, a Parliamentary-fund, for ten millions, sterling, or more, in Exchequer-bisis, and without land-tax, or new imposition. And one hundred pounds therein, shall become more valuable, than so much in gold or silver; and, at pleasure, convertable into money; and hereby some thousands of South-Sea-sufferers may be reliev'd, and thereby Parliamentary-credit, very much advanced.
Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.Date: 1721- E-books
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An address to the public, on the propriety of establishing schools for spinning, or other work, and appointing teachers in each parish, with a view to the better relief and employement of the poor Consisting principaly of extracts from a pamphlet, published some time since, By the Rev. Mr. Bouyer. To which are added, the first proceedings of the committee of industry, appointed by a general meeting of several parishes within the hundreds of Ongar and Harlow, and the half hundred of Waltham, in the county of Essex.
Bouyer, Reynold Gideon, d. 1826.Date: [1795?]