An abstract of a proposal already laid before the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, for employing our poor, and preventing the exportation of our coin Kent, Dircy. 1694 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A47261 Wing K308 ESTC R17229 13155127 ocm 13155127 98171 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47261) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98171) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 423:13) An abstract of a proposal already laid before the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, for employing our poor, and preventing the exportation of our coin Kent, Dircy. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1694] Signed at end: Dircy Kent. Wing lists author as Dixey Kent. Place and date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in University of London Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Poor -- England. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2008-08 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-09 Megan Marion Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Megan Marion Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion An ABSTRACT of a PROPOSAL Already laid before the Honourable The House of Commons Assembled in Parliament , FOR Employing our Poor , AND PREVENTING The Exportation of our Coin. THat the Monies now collected throughout England and Wales , for the Maintainance of the Poor in Idleness , be settled in the Hands of such Trustees as this Honourable House shall appoint , to be a Fund to employ , them able , in the Linnen or other Foreign Manufactures , or such Manufactures or Employments of our own that are not in a flourishing Condition ; and to maintain all such who are or shall from Time to Time become chargeable to their Parishes . That it ought speedily to be done , whilst Linnens are near double the Value as they us'd to be at in Time of Peace ; and we ( as well as the Germans , Spanish , Portuguees , Dutch , &c. ) make use of such Advantages as God and Nature , and the present Juncture doth afford us ; Whereby we shall be able to work cheaper than any of our Neighbours , all the Poor's Labour being clear Profit ; for the same Mony that maintains them now in Idleness will do it much better when imployed and in a Community . By which means we may be some Millions yearly Gainers , near Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds per Annum being paid in Specie to the French alone , in Time of Peace , by this Kingdom , for their Linnen Manufactures , to be here expended , or , by us , sent to other Countries ; which Alteration will , at least , annually save the Exportation of so much of our Coin or Bullion : And that only by setting the Poor to Work , without other Charge than what now maintains them in Idleness . All which at large is ready to be again laid before this Honourable House , when they shall think fit , by Dixcy Kent .