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<HEAD>An humble Propo&s;al to the Honourable the Knights, Cityzens and Burge&s;&s;es in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, for Employing and Maintaining the Poor of this Kingdom, by erecting Fi&s;heries, and improving Manufacturies.</HEAD>
<P>TO have a Director General that &s;hall provide a Convenient Place in every County, for the mo&s;t burden&s;ome Poor of every Pari&s;h, of every re&s;pective County to be plac'd together in; every one of which places to have a Market one Day in a Week, and two Faires in a Year; the Director to procure a &s;ufficient Undertaker for each Place &s;o provided (who is to be chief Maje&s;trate and Ruler therein) and as many more &s;ufficient Undertakers, as &s;hall be needful to be had for undertaking the whole Kingdom. All Pari&s;hes throughout the Kingdom to pay the Undertakers Monthly, a proportion for fourteen Years as followeth, that is to &s;ay, the Third part of what the Collections of the Poors Rates amounted to the three Years la&s;t pa&s;t, for the fir&s;t Year of this Undertaking, and &s;o on, until the full end and expi|ration of &s;even Years next en&s;uing the date hereof, for the next &s;even Years, that makes up and fully Compleats the fourteen Years, half to be paid in manner and form as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> be&s;ides the Counties they &s;tand in, being very Large and Numerous, to have four Places within the Weekly Bill of Mortality, convenient to receive &s;ome Poor out of every adjacent Pari&s;h within the Weekly Bill of Mortality: In every one of the &s;aid four Places a Market &s;hall be holden, and an Undertaker &s;hall be placed and Govern as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Which &s;aid places of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and within the Weekly Bill of Mortality, have a bun|dance of Beggers, and Idle Loo&s;e People, that ought to be reduc'd and Maintain'd as Poor, that never were entered in their Pari&s;h Books, yet one way or other get their livelyhoods from them. For preventing Beggers, or any Loo&s;e Idle People from Lurking about within the Limits afore&s;aid: One Farthing a Week for every Hou&s;e within the Weekly Bill of Mortality, being Monthly paid to the Undertakers over and above their Pari&s;h Rates; the Undertakers within the Weekly Bill of Mortality &s;hall Employ, provide for and well Maintain any &s;uch Begger or Beggers, or other Loo&s;e Per&s;on or Per&s;ons brought to any Undertaker, Deputy or Agent for any Undertaker, within the Weekly Bill of Mortality.</P>
<P>That the Mony may not be received, and the Poor not well Employ'd and Maintain'd, let the Ju&s;tices of the Peace of every County, in&s;pect and &s;ee that the Poor People have all things Needful both in Sickne&s;s and in Health, according to their &s;everal Stations, as Servants, Apprentices, and Poor La|bouring People ought to have and be &s;upply'd with, and on Complaint upon Oath, that &s;uch Supplies by any are wanted, the Neighbouring Ju&s;tices of the Peace &s;hall enquire and examine into the matter, &s;end for the Undertaker, his Deputy or Agent, and if they find good Cau&s;e and Rea&s;on &s;o to do, to force and compel the Undertaker, his Deputy or Agent, to provide for, and &s;upply them with what they want and &s;tand in need of, and that they Govern and Breed all up Religiou&s;ly and Soberly.</P>
<P>Every Undertaker &s;hall be a Re&s;pon&s;ible Man of, or well known in the County, the place and places he is Undertaker for, and give Bond to the Church-wardens or Over&s;eers of the Poor of every Pari&s;h he is Undertaker for; that their Poor &s;hall be well provided for, and maintain'd as long as he receives their Poors Rates, and continues an Undertaker. And if requir'd by the Church-wardens or Over&s;eers of the Poor, &s;hall make Oath before &s;ome Maje&s;trate, that he is not Undertaker for more Pari&s;hes then he &s;hews a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of, two or more of the Neigh|bouring Ju&s;tices of the Peace, approving, and allowing his Bond to be &s;ufficient Security to make him perform his Contract and Undertaking, with the Pari&s;h or Pari&s;hes mention'd in the Certificate.</P>
<P>The Profits of the Fairs and Markets to be the Directors, or his A&s;&s;igns, for the Term of the afore|&s;aid fourteen Years, he or they carrying on, and &s;eeing well performed this beneficial Undertaking according to the Propo&s;al.</P>
<P>The Ju&s;tices of the Peace to have power to remove; or put out any Undertaker (at the Quarter Se&s;&s;i|ons) if they find good Cau&s;e and Rea&s;on &s;o to do; giving notice in the <HI>Gazzette</HI> to the Director to provide another &s;ufficient in his room, that &s;hall give Security the in like manner the Undertaker did before him.</P>
<P>It will be no &s;mall help to the Poor, be&s;ides many other great Advantages to the Nation, to con|trive to keep our Wool at home, and &s;end all &s;orts of Woollen Manufacturies abroad, which I hum|bly Conceive this following Method will effectually perform, if the Parliament &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P>To lay a Tax of &s;o much upon every pound of Wool, half &s;o much upon every pound of Wool-locks.</P>
<P>That this may not hinder the Manufacturing and working up of Wool, follow the Act prohibiting, <HI>the Dead to be dre&s;t in any thing that is not made of Wool:</HI> Do &s;omthing of the like upon the Living, com|pelling them from their Shouldiers to the Bottoms of their Feet, to wear no Garments or Coverings that is not made of Wool, Leather, Silk, Gold, or Silver, except Shirts, Smocks and Sheets.</P>
<P>To encourage the Merchants to carry abroad as much of Woollen Manufactures as they can Pur|cha&s;e: Order a Draw-back at the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e; of &s;o much a pound for all things and Goods made of Wool, as is laid upon Wool, for what is made of Wool-locks, as much as is laid upon Wool-locks.</P>
<P>The Advantages of Taxing Wool before any other thing, tho at fir&s;t it is paid by the Owner, is the mo&s;t ea&s;ie&s;t and mo&s;t univer&s;al of all Taxes; the Owner being no loo&s;er, &s;elling his Wool for as much or more then he now doth, be&s;ides what will pay the Tax. The Cloathier will do the like by his Cloath, &s;o will the Draper; it is the buyer that will pay the Tax. (by con&s;equenee the whole Nation) A Land Tax lays all upon the Owner, which is hard and unequal, all other Taxes doth no good, but rai&s;e Mony: A Tax upon Wool, doth not only rai&s;e Mony, but keep Wool to our great advan|tage at home, di&s;appoints our Neighbours, advances our Merchants, which no where for the future will meet with any Competeter or Underminer in their Woollen Traffick, which I fear to often now they do; If this be true, which I believe cannot be denied; it will be the the mo&s;t benificial and equal Tax that ever was laid upon the Nation, and I hope for the Nations good always will be u&s;ed:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Cole.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>A PROPOSAL to Maintain the Poor, by Erecting Fi&s;heries.</P>
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