Proposals for establishing a charitable fund in the city of London, By Voluntary Gifts and Loans of Mony, to Relieve Necessitous Persons from the Oppressions and Evil Practices of ill Men; providing poor People, within the several Parishes mentioned in the Weekly Bills of Mortality, with Coals and other Necessaries at a cheap Rate in the Winter and Time of War, maintaining those that are not able to get their Livelihood, setting others to Work, or Employ them to Sweep and Clean the Streets and other Places within the said Parishes, clear them from Beggars, make convenient Walks, and Repair the High-Ways in the Avenues of the said City; with Reasons for the same, &c. shewing the Benefits that will arise thereby to the Publick.

Date:

[1706]