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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for peni...

A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for peni...

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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. [electronic resource] : Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.

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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. [electronic resource] : Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.

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London : printed for T. Payne, in Castle-Street, next the Mews Upper Gate, Charing Cross; sold by W. Shropshire, in New Bond-Street; W Owen, at Temple-Bar; and C. Henderson, at the Royal-Exchange. - MDCCLVIII. [1758]

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MDCCLVIII. [1758]

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74VvkZz3DbZl

MMS ID

991013754189702626

Language

English

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[4],146,[2]p., table ; 4°.

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Publisher

London : printed for T. Payne, in Castle-Street, next the Mews Upper Gate, Charing Cross; sold by W. Shropshire, in New Bond-Street; W Owen, at Temple-Bar; and C. Henderson, at the Royal-Exchange. - MDCCLVIII. [1758]

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England

Date Published

MDCCLVIII. [1758]

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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. [electronic resource] : Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of...

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Price from imprint: price Sewed, Three Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

With a final leaf advertising tracts by Massie.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T99528.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VvkZz3DbZl

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991013754189702626