Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1684
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Credit: Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    j forward to Contribute to the Common Neceffitiess And what if you fhonld refolve for oxe Day in ameck, (at leaft during fuchan haré time) CO reitrain.your felves fron) large Eating and fet Ateals, and wholly on that day forbear Libbing of Wine and itrong Liquors C1 dare promife you; icthallbeneverthe worfe for your Zedith, but the vetter , asalfo for your Bufzefs) and lmploy what you fo Save, in Cnaritable Ufes to the Reliefof the Poor ?-Sych athing bas been done on 3 Worfe occafion within ourMemory,and therefore is no: Im practicable. By this only means Within Leadons Bills of Mortality migiit eafily beraifed Twenty Thoufands pouvds a week for the Ler 5 And no Mena Farthing the worle, but ever In his Eikate che better (and much more in his Health, which is more Vaitable than the greatelt Ejtate in Chriftendeme) for without difpute toere are within that Circuit more than an Hundred ‘thoufand Families wilole Dinners cach Day Coft them (one With another )-more thanthree Shillings each » Tmean extravagantly, in Fie, -Fowls or Fifh, whena little Bread and Chec& » #4:ilk Or the like, might as well, Cnay f am fure ‘70Uid better) for once at leaftin a Week, fupply Nature >; Now one hup- cred thoufand chree shillings is Fifteensthoufand pound; and tl £0 he doubted ¢ fince in this Age General hen tis not ly more is {pent in Drax k, than “ittuals but that there are above one Hundred thoufandPerfons thar daily lavith away above twelve pence a Day in Wine., Brandy , “le, or fome flrong Licuors, which they forbearing but forone day in a week, and beftowir 2 as aforcizid, thereby may be raifed Pive thoufand pound more, aiid fo ta the whole Wenty thoufand pounds aweek , which jafily diftri- buted, would bravely fupply Four-{core thoufand Families » at Five fhil- lings a week a peice, or afford an hundred and threefcote thoufand Poor People belf a Crown a peice every week. | And will you fuffer fuch a han- abridge your wanton Number of Seals. to.perith , for want, rathert nneceflary 5 nay pernitioys Danities, Palates ane] Matiate Panzches of U one only Diy imaweek ? Look up thou \Sortsfh Epicure that Derye# it, and call chy telf Chriftien hence forwards if thou Dareft. “6 oe nS SOP Ricet a ey - ADVERTISEMENT. a3. There isJat ‘ly publifht, A Treatife very Ufeful, Intituled--The Way ta Health , long Life, arid f1appine{s &. Tohe Sold by Andrew Sowle . at the Crooked Billet ip Flollaway-Lane neat Shore-Ditch, AER te X