A cook 20
A butler 20
Six women to assist the cook and clean the
house, 4 pounds each 24
Six nurses to tend the people, 3 pounds each 18
A chaplain 20
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152
A hundred alms-people at 8 pounds per annum, diet, &c. 800
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952
The table for the officers, and contingencies, and
clothes for the alms-people, and firing,
put together 500
An auditor of the accounts, a committee of the
governors, and two clerks.

Here I suppose 1,500 pounds per annum revenue, to be settled upon
the house, which, it is very probable might be raised from the tax
aforesaid. But since an Act of Parliament is necessary to be had
for the collecting this duty, and that taxes for keeping of fools
would be difficultly obtained, while they are so much wanted for
wise men, I would propose to raise the money by voluntary charity,
which would be a work that would leave more honour to the
undertakers than feasts and great shows, which our public bodies too
much diminish their stocks with.

But to pass all suppositious ways, which are easily thought of, but
hardly procured, I propose to maintain fools out of our own folly.
And whereas a great deal of money has been thrown about in