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Provision for the poor, or, Reasons for the erecting of a working-hospital in every county as the most necessary and onely effectual expedient to promote the linnen manufactory : with comfortable maintenance for all poor and distressed people in citie and country, by which all beggars, vagrants, &c. throughout the nation, amy speedily be restrained and for ever prevented : in persuance to certain proposals to the King and Parliament ...

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Main Author:	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Almshouses > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Poor > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Linen industry > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Electronic books.
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