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The Parliaments reformation or A worke for presbyters, elders, and deacons to engage themselves, for the education of all poore children, and imployment of all sorts of poore, : that no poore body young or old may be enforced to beg within their classes in city nor country. Published for the generall good of the kingdome. /

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Main Author:	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, : Printed for Thomas Bates, at the Maidenhead on Snow-hill, neere Holborne Conduit., 1646.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Poor > England > Early works to 1800. Begging > England > Early works to 1800. Poor children > England > Early works to 1800. Church schools > England > Early works to 1800. Charity laws and legislation > England > Early works to 1800.
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