Tuesday the seven and twentieth of April, 1652. Votes of Parliament for setting the poor on vvork, and for preventing of common-begging. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83596 of text R211482 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[49]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A83596 Wing E2452 Thomason 669.f.16[49] ESTC R211482 99870207 99870207 163204 2240953409

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83596) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163204) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f16[49]) Tuesday the seven and twentieth of April, 1652. Votes of Parliament for setting the poor on vvork, and for preventing of common-begging. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1652. Order to print dated: Friday the Thirtieth of April, 1652. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. With Parliamentary seal at head of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Begging -- England -- Early works to 1800. Poor laws -- England -- Early works to 1800. A83596 R211482 (Thomason 669.f.16[49]). civilwar no Tuesday the seven and twentieth of April, 1652. Votes of Parliament for setting the poor on vvork, and for preventing of common-begging. England and Wales. Parliament. 1652 1 270 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Tuesday the Seven and twentieth of April , 1652. VOTES OF PARLIAMENT For setting the Poor on Work , And for preventing of Common-Begging .

Resolved by the Parliament ,

THat it be referred to a Committee to consider how and by what means the Poor may be set on work throughout the Nation , and such poor as are not able to work may be relieved , to prevent common Begging , and to Report their Opinion therein to the House .

Resolved by the Parliament , That it be referred to the same Committee to revise all the Laws touching the Relief of the poor and setting them on work , and to consider by what means or default the same are become ineffectual , or are not put in Execution , and Report the same , with their Opinion what means are fit for the redress thereof to the House .

Resolved by the Parliament , That the same Committee be Impowred to receive such Proposals as shall be tendred to them by any persons for the better effecting the premises , and to consider of them , and Report their Opinions therein to the House .

Friday the Thirtieth of April , 1652.

ORdered by the Parliament , That the several Votes of Parliament of the 27th of April , 1652. touching the Relief of the Poor , and setting them on work , be forthwith Printed and Published .

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed by John Field , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1652.