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Observations on the number and misery of the poor; on the heavy rates levied for their maintenance; and, on the general causes of poverty: including some cursory hints, for the radical cure of these growing evils. Humbly submitted to public consideration.
Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts.
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts.Date: [1787]- Books
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A scheme for the employment of all persons sent as disorderly to the house of correction in Clerkenwell: Shewing, I. That the profits of their labour will find them in a sufficiency of food. II. Pay the keeper an annual salary. And III. Defray the other expences and necessary repairs of the said Gaol. The whole proving, that the county by the execution of this scheme will soon save several hundred pounds a-year.
Ilive, Jacob, 1705-1763.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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An inquiry into the management of the poor, and our usual polity respecting the common people; with Reasons Why they have not hitherto been attended with Success, and Such Alterations offered to the Consideration of the Legislature, as may probably introduce a more general Spirit of Industry and Order, and greatly lessen the Publick Expence.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Oxford, August 30, 1800. A requisition having been made to me to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of this city, to consider the propriety of a survey of the rateable property within the united parishes, with a view to the making of the poor's rates more equal and fair, I do therefore appoint Monday the 8th day of September next for such meeting, ...
Oxford (England : City)Date: [1800]- Books
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A letter from Daniel de Foe to Mr. Matthews printer in Little-Britain. About the Birth of the Pretender.
Date: [1711]- Books
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An estimate of the manners and principles of the times. By the author of Essays on the Characteristics, &c.
Brown, John, 1715-1766.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Observations on the causes of the dissoluteness which reigns among the lower classes of the people; the propensity of some to petty larceny: and the danger of gaming, concubinage, and an excessive fondness for amusement in high life, &c. Also an account of the humanity and policy of the Marine Society, now solliciting an Incorporation-The State of the London Workhouse, and the Usefulness and Piety of the Magdalen Hospital, &c. With a proposal for new regulating of Bridewell, in order to render it of important Service to the Police of London. Likewise a plan for preventing the extrordinary mortality of the children of the labouring Poor in London and Westminster. In three letters to a governor of Bridewell, Bethlem, Christ-Church, &c. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Six concluding letters to a senator, on the tendencies of the foundling hospital in its boundless extent. Part II. Shewing what is Bad in that Plan; and pointing out a new one to be substitued instead of it, or to be united to what is Good in it; this new one tending to make the Poor become a full Support to the Poor, and not only not Burdensome to the Public, but great Benefactors to it.
Cato, active 1760.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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Letters to the estimator of the manners and principles of the times. By One who has served the State.
Swing, Swithin.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A mirrour for the rulers of the people. In which are contained several miscellaneous pieces, adapted to the times. Necessary to be read by Men of all Ranks and Degrees; as it treats of Matters of the greatest Importance to the Public. To which are added some proposals for the speedy lessening the national debt; And a few pertinent Queries. Salus Populi Suprema est Lex.
Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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Hints respecting the poor: submitted to the consideration of the humane and intelligent. By the Rev. T. Haweis, LL. B. Rector of Aldwinkle All Saints; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Late Earl of Peterborough.
Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820.Date: [1788]- Books
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Distress. A poetical essay. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable John Earl of Radnor. The second edition corrected and enlarged. By Mr. Arnold.
Arnold, Cornelius, 1711-1757?.Date: [1752?]- Books
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The motives to the senseless clamour against the act concerning Jews exposed; and the act set in a true light. With an acknowledgement to the orthodox parsons, for their eminent services in the cause, from the pulpit.
Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Reasons, humbly submitted to the Honourable members of both Houses of Parliament, for introducing a law, to prevent unnecessary and vexatious removals of the poor; thereby to reduce parish expences, BY Letting The Poor live where they can best earn their Bread.
Greaves, William, of Fulbourne.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Considerations on the present state of Great Britain. With several Remarks upon the Reigns of King James the First, Charles the First, &c. Unto the end of the Stuart's Race in Queen Anne. In a letter to Sir William Whitlock. By a country layman.
Country layman.Date: [1717]