Giving alms no charity , And Employing the poor A Grievance to the nation, Being an essay Upon this Great Question, Whether Work-Houses, Corporations, and Houses of Correction for Employing the Poor, as now practis'd in England; or Parish-Stocks, as propos'd in a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A Bill for the better Relief, Imployment and Settlement of the Poor, &c. Are not mischievous to the Nation, tending to the Destruction of our Trade, and to encrease the Number and Misery of the Poor. Addressed to the Parliament of England.

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MDCCIV. [1704]