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 by Richard Haines
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_Answ._ They may be secured well enough, and those that turn the Wheel, _&c._ may be separated by an Iron Grate from the rest:--And here by the way, the pious wisdom of the City of _London_ may find out a means, whereby all those Impudent Night-walkers, and Nurses of Debauchery may be wholly removed, which at present are a destruction both to the Estates, Bodies and Souls of many Hundreds, and cannot be reclaimed by ordinary _Bridewels_, because their Labour there is only a punishment, and turns not to advantage, to keep them there all their days, or at least until they marry, and keep within doors. _Obj. 7._ Some may imagine an inconvenience in sending so many people from all parts of the County to one place, and say, _Why were it not better to build many little Work-Houses rather than one great one_? _Answ._ I Answer, By no means; for then we shall miss one great and chief Design, _viz._ the maintenance of good Government; by which the whole Family may be instructed in good Manners both towards God and Man; only as some Counties are greater, more populous, _&c._ they may have more or less proportionably. _Obj. 8._ There still remains one Objection; and that is, _What shall we do for Hemp and Flax?_ _Answ._ To which I Answer, That Hemp or Flax (one or the other) may plentifully be had in every County of _England_: Take _Sussex_ as an example; any indifferent good Land, Chalky, _&c._ from the foot of the _Downes_ to the Sea-side, with double Folding or Dunging, and twice Plowing, will produce Hemp in abundance; yet though their Land be rich enough, dry, _&c._ it will not produce good Flax: But to supply that, many |
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