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Every-body's business is no-body's business; or, Private abuses, public grievances. Exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same: as also, for clearing the streets of those vermin called shoe-cleaners, and substituting in their stead many thousands of industrious poor now ready to starve. With divers other hints, of great use to the publick. Humbly submitted to the consideration of our legislature, and the careful perusal of all masters and mistresses of families. By A. M. Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1767- Books
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Every-Body's business, is No-Body's Business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, Insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1725- Books
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The state of the poor: or, an history of the labouring classes in England, from the conquest to the present period; ... together with parochial reports ... With a large appendix; ... By Sir Frederic Morton Eden, Bart. In three volumes. ...
Eden, Frederick Morton, Sir, 1766-1809.Date: 1797- Books
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Observations on the present state of the parochial and vagrant poor.
Scott, John, 1730-1783.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A discourse on trade, and other matters relative to it. Viz. Of Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: Of Husbandry, Feeding, Tillage, Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals, Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool, Cotton-Wool. Hemp and Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware, Silk, Distilling: The great Advantages of a universal National Bank demonstrated: Sugar-Baking, Tobacco, Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper - Mills, Powder - Mills: Method to improve our Manufactures, by imploying the Poor: Of Courts of Merchants, Silver Coin: An effectual Method to prevent the Running of Wool: Of our Trade to the East and West-Indies, Africa, the Plantations, Iceland, the Canaries, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Holland, Hamburgh, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, France, South-Sea, &c. What foreign Trades are profitable, and what not. An Essay on National Credit, and the Irish Linnen Manufacture, &c. &c. &c. Wrote at the request of several Members of Parliament. And now Published for universal Benefit. By John Cary, Esq; Merchant of Bristol.
Cary, John, -1720?.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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An account of the origin and progress of the Society for the Promotion of Industry, in the Hundreds of Ongar and Harlow, and the Half Hundred of Waltham, in the County of Essex.
Society for the Promotion of Industry in the Hundreds of Ongar and Harlow.Date: 1797- Books
Poverty bites : food, health and poor families / Elizabeth Dowler and Sheila Turner, with Barbara Dobson.
Dowler, Elizabeth, 1951-Date: [2001]- Books
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. By I. Wood. The second edition. To which is added, the third edition of the bye-laws, rules, and ordinances, of the said house. Also an appendix; containing a correspondence with the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex, Author of several Essays on Population, and of an Enquiry into the Mortality of Country Houses of Industry, &c.
Wood, Isaac.Date: 1791- Books
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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, ...
Thwaites, Thomas.Date: 1725?]- Books
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Letters on the importance of the rising generation of the laboring part of our fellow-subjects; being an account of the miserable state of the infant parish poor; the great usefulness of the hospital for exposed and deserted young children properly restricted; the obligations of parochial officers; and an historical detail of the whole mortality of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this time. With political, moral, and religious observations on the education and instruction of the poor, marriage, and population. Reflexions on the causes of the high price of provisions; the danger of the national debt, expensive living, and want of zeal for our common welfare. In two volumes. Vol. I. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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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.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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Every-Body's business, is no-body's business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of Industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints, of great Use to the Publick. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1725]- Books
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. By I. Wood. To which is added, the second edition of the Bye-Laws, rules, and ordinances, of the said house.
Wood, Isaac.Date: 1791- Books
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The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them. In a series of letters. By Tho. Ruggles, Esq. F. A. S. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Essex and Suffolk. In two volumes. ...
Ruggles, Thomas, 1737?-1813.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]-94- Books
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Hints respecting the distresses of the poor.
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: [1795]- Books
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A letter to Thomas Gilbert, Esq; on his intended reform of the poor laws. By a country gentleman.
Country gentleman.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Remarks on two bills for the better maintenance of the poor, &c. In a letter to --, Member of Parliament. By Thomas Alcock, M. A. Late of Brase-Nose College, Oxford.
Alcock, Thomas, 1709-1798.Date: 1753- Books
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Reasons for the law, to prevent the further growth of schism: Shewing, that the indulgence granted to dissenters is dangerous both to church and state. The second edition. To which is now added, the votes of the Honourable House of Commons, Feb. 25. &c. 1662. Upon reading of His Majesties gracious declaration and speech, &c.
Date: 1718- Books
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An essay, towards regulating the trade, and employing the poor, of this kingdom. By John Cary.
Cary, John, -1720?.Date: 1717- Books
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A parochial plan for ameliorating the condition of the labouring poor.
Date: 1800- Books
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Proposals tender'd for an addition to the late act of Parliament for collecting charity on briefs by letters patents. By Margaret Mortimer widow. Together with reasons for the necessity of making such an addition to the act, as will plainly appear by a certificate, sign'd by nine of His late Majesty's justices of the peace for the libertys of Westminster. Together with some part of the master's report. Humbly offer'd to the lords and commons in Parliament assembled.
Mortimer, Margaret.Date: Printed in the year, 1707- Books
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A letter to William Paley, M. A. Archdeacon of Carlisle, from a poor labourer, in answer to his Reason for contentment. Addressed to the labouring part of the British public.
Poor Labourer.Date: 1793- Books
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National thoughts, recommended to the serious attention of the public. With an appendix, shewing the damages arising from a bounty on corn. The second edition corrected. By a land-owner.
Townshend, Charles, Right Hon., P.C.Date: [1751?]- Books
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A plan of police: exhibiting the causes of the present increase of the poor, and proposing a mode for their future more effectual relief and support.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: 1781?]- Books
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A proposal for relief and punishment of vagrants, particularly such as frequent the streets and publick places of resort, within this kingdom.
Date: M,DCC,XLVIII. [1748]