Proposals for Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital - as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen - Cloth

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Proposals For Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital, by Richard Haines This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Proposals For Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital As The Best Expedient To Perfect The Trade And Manufactory Of Linnen Cloth Author: Richard Haines Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15102] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROPOSALS *** Produced by Ralph Griswald, Nancie McCraw, Keith Edkins and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PROPOSALS For Building in every COUNTY A WORKING-ALMS-HOUSE OR HOSPITAL; As the Best Expedient to perfect the TRADE and MANUFACTORY OF Linnen-Cloth. LONDON, Printed by W.G. for R. Harford, at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil, 1677. WHEREBY, I. All Poor people and their Children from five or six years old may be employed and maintained; as also all Beggars, Vagrants, &c. restrained and for ever prevented, and so all Parishes eased of that intolerable Burden. II. Many Hundred Thousand Pounds kept at home, which now every year goes out of the Kingdom for Linnen, whereby our Wealth becomes a prey to other Nations. III.