The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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568 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM that people were too ready to give way to the building of cottages, « for the ease of your parish, or out of a base fear of your Lord. The Parish sometimes wants habitation for pags oA, their poor, and then with consent of the Lord there is a wastes new erection, and for which there are very few Lords, but contrary to Law do receive rent, so that he careth not how many are erected. Again, many times the Lord gives way to erect without consent, either of Free or Copyholder, and if such are presented yet very seldome redressed’.” There was soon reason to suspect, however, that this mode of dealing with the difficulty was a mere palliative, and that the practice in the long run fostered the evils of pauperism. Dymock propounds some searching questions on this subject; “whether Commons do not rather make poore by causing idlenesse, than maintaine them; and such poore who are trained up rather for the Gallowes or beggary, than for the Common- wealth’s service? How it cometh to passe that there are fewest poore where there are fewest Commons, as in Kent, where there is scarce six commons in a county of a con- siderable greatnesse??” The remedy he suggests is that of enclosing the commons and allotting a couple of acres, or so, to each of these families. Taylor is still more explicit; be would have tried to train these people to engage in spinning and manufacturing rather than that they (as usually now they do) “should be lazying upon a Common to attend one Cow and a few sheep for we seldom see any living on Commons set themselves to a better employment. And if the father do work sometimes, and so get bread, yet the A.D. 1689 —1776. in 1654. Where the man could obtain four acres of ground there was no legal objection to the erection of a cottage, as he was supposed to have the means of supporting himself. A. Moore, Bread for the Poore (1653), p. 15. L Common Good, 38. 3 Hartlib's Legacie, 54. Samuel Hartlib is sometimes credited with being the author of this work, as for example by Thorold Rogers, Agriculture and Prices. But his own Prefaces, as well as the Memoir by Dircks, make it clear that this is a mistake. Hartlib constituted himself into a sort of Society of Arts, and had a large correspondence with specialists in different departments. Of his own acquaintance with the subject of husbandry he observes: —* I cannot say much of mine own experience in this matter, yet Providence having directed me by the improvement of several relations with the experience and observations of others, [ find myself obliged to become a conduit pipe thereof towards the Publick.” (Dircks, Biographical Memoirs of Hartlib, p. 63.) Dircks attributes this tract to Dressy Dymock, p. 69.

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