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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THE PROBLEMS OF POVERTY 573 in 1648, in which similar measures are advocated; and A.D 208 Parliament intervened in 1647 by erecting a corporation ,,;,, for employing the poor in London! In 1649 a pamphlet vd the appeared, entitled the Poor Man's Advocate?, which suggests that the remains of the crown lands, as well as of the episcopal and cathedral revenues, should be utilised in this way. Sir Matthew Hale® wrote in the same vein in 1683; and many schemes were put forward for providing employ- ment’, After the Revolution® expedients of this kind were urged more frequently. One of them was brought before Parliament in 1698, and is highly commended by Davenant?; another was drafted by Locke’, who was one of the com- missioners of the Board of Trade, another by one of the Worcester justices, Mr Appletre®, and another by Mr Dunning of Devonshire?. Locke brought a Bill into Parliament in 1 16 Dec. 1647. This is not printed by Scobell but merely mentioned. There is a copy in the British Museum (1027. i. 16 (2)]. * An ordinance of the Lords and Commons for the constant Reliefe and Imployment of the Poore * * * also inabling the severall Counties and Corporations in the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales for the like Relieving and Regulating of the Poore in their respective Places.” 2 By Peter Chamberlen. 8 Provision for Poor. 4 Several tracts were written by men who were eager to promote some branch of industry and who refer to the employment of the poor as one of the incidental advantages it would subserve. It is in this spirit that Haines advises that the poor should be employed in the linen manufacture (Proposals for building * * a Working Almshouse (1677), in Harl. Misc. 1v. 489). This was the favourite experi- ment when workhouses were necessary and were established, as for example by Firmin in London, in 1678 (Eden, 1. 202 and note), The account of Haines’ scheme shows that the class of poor, for whom employment was sought, was not the same as the able-bodied vagrants whom Stanley had in mind, and for whom Harman provided. Eden, 1.168. Goffe (How to advance the trade of the nation and employ the poor, in Harl. Misc. xv. 383, a tract which is undated but apparently of the time of Charles I1.)and others [Grand Concern, in Harl. Misc. vim. 581; I. D. in A Clear and Evident Way (1650), {Brit. Mus. 1027. i. 16 (5), p. 15}, urge that the poor might be employed in connection with fishing; and Yarranton (England's Improvement (1677), pp. 47, 56) enunciates different possibilities for different parts of the country, such as bone lace for the girls, toy-making for the boys, and iron working. In Guilding, Records of Reading, much information will be found about the workhouse and stock for employing the poor, but apparently the utensils were sold and the scheme abandoned in 1639. Ib. m1. 455. 8 The subject was mentioned in the King's Speech, 16 Nov. 1699, and a com- mittee of the House of Commons was appointed to deal with it (C. J. xmI. 4). Cary, 4 Proposal offered to the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of Ways for the better providing for the Poor and setting them on Work [Brit. Mus. 1027, i. 18 (6)]. 6 Davenant, m. 207. 7 Eden. 1. 244. 245. 3 7b. 930 Y Th. 248

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