England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county

Folger bibliographic ID: 156123
ESTC number: R6472
Wing number: H201
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 198210

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Includes "A method of government for such publick working alms-houses as may be erected in every county for bringing all idle hands to industry", probably a reissue of the 1679 edition (Wing H201A)

Extended title: England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county : for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum. And also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a begger bred up in the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the honourable House of Commons. By R. Haines. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. Pursuant to A breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published
Alternate titles: England's weal and prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick work-houses in every county

Almshouses Wool industry

author: Haines, Richard, 1633-1685