Since all Parishes are to contribute to this Work , and every Parishoner is concerned in the Charge , and may reap Benefit by it , if honestly managed , Therefore , because it cannot be imagined that any people will cheat or injure themselves , let each person in every Parish be concerned in or about the Government or Inspection thereof ; as follows .

This Method of Government or Inspection I humbly offer as most safe , because from head to foot the Interest of one Member hath its dependance on the other .

Thus much for the Form of Government , as to the Governors ; I shall now add a few words concerning the Persons to be Governed ; The rather for that our design is abusively Represented , as if we intended these houses to be places of Slavery , and to keep people per force there all their Lives , whereas we propose only this .

These are the persons that may compose & fill up these Houses . As for the Officers way of providing their Diet , Cloaths , and other circumstances , we need not here particularize , Christs Hospital , or the like Foundation , may afford a good President for us to imitate .

As for that Common Objection and Discouragement from the unhappy miscarriage of Clarkenwell Work-house , and the like , which to prevent the most happy Reformation and Weal of our Nation , remains a Gazing-stock to discourage all publick Spirits , as the Devil and self-interested people would have it , The same ought to be no plea or obstruction to what we propose . For , 1. That which rendred that and other Houses unsuccessful , was the ill-government thereof , but such regular method of Government as we have offered , at least with some amendments , will prevent all such inconveniencies . 2. As for that House , 't is nothing strange that it did miscarry , rather it would have been strange if it had not ; since the persons governing such Houses ought to be inferior to those by whom they are intrusted , that the latter may speedily bring them to account , and if they find any one dishonest , correct and turn him out of doors ; whereas the Governors of Clerkenwell-house were great men , and authorized to raise money at pleasure , not to be corrected , but by Act of Parliament , &c. So that their quality , and business , or want of honesty , hindred them from using that inspection over inferior Officers as was necessary , and when money came into their hands , and was diverted who could force them to an account ? 3. If this be a precedent of ill-success , and only for the reason aforesaid , we can shew you many precedents in Holland , &c. of such Work-houses erected & managed with good-success ; nay there is scarce any thing contributes more to the wealth and strength of that Nation , than their … dence and industry in this respect ; but there they are … ged not by Grandees , as Clerkenwell was to be , but by honest laborious men , who if they fail in their duty are forthwith severely corrected . A person intrusted in a Spin-house in Amsterdam , was publickly whipt and turn'd out of doors for being partial , viz. because by his connivance a young woman , who was sent thither to work for her living , made her escape . Another Officer was whipt and committed to the Rasp-house , for diminishing what was allowed for the comfortable maintenance of the Poor . At Leiden I saw a fellow most severely whipt upon a Scaffold , erected for that very purpose before the Spin-house , in view of many thousands , and after committed to the Rasp-house , for that he under pretence of being zealous to serve the States , inricht himself by abusing and oppressing the Poor . 'T was for want of such strict Government Clarkenwell , &c. came to naught . 4. If because that House , meerly for want of right method , and persons of fit qualifications to govern it , miscarried , therefore no such Houses must be made use of ; may not our Merchants as well conclude , that because some Ships , for want of an honest fit Master or skilful Pilot , have been cast away ; therefore tho there be men enough whose qualifications and integrity are sufficient , yet they will never venture to send forth any more Ships ; If you say the case is different , for tho the Houses have failed , yet we know most of our Ships return safe , then I may return you the same answer ; In Holland none of these Houses 〈◊〉 ●●●refore if we take right method of government , our Houses 〈…〉 often as our ●hips a●● wil● become as profitable to the Kingdom , for if the Houses prosper , to be sure our Shipping will increase , therefore whoever is an enemy to these Houses , is as great an enemy to the encrease of our Ships and Seamen , and consequently an enemy to the true , Wealth , Safety and Interest of the English Nation .

At least since this expedient is no new Project , but dayly ●ractised with ●●traordinary success and advantage by our Neighbors 'T is humbl● hoped that the same sh●ll not be contemned 〈…〉 , before they have first sough● out , and demonstrated some more certain , effectual and fea●ble expedients to accomplish the wo●k in hand , and by the Proposer humbly offered , viz. To convert all the Wool of England , and what Scotland and Ireland have to spare , into Cloth , on such terms as to vend the Cloth as fast as 't is made , whereby 30 or 40 hundred thousand pounds , per annum may be gain'd to the Nation ; and all poor people bred up to such an habit of industry , that for the future a Beggar may not be seen in the Kingdom ; but neither they nor their childrens children shall ever want a lawful Imployment , Food , Raiment , nor Habitation .