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Quaker Collection4
Brotherton Collection4
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

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poor25
poor laws7
charities4
public welfare4
working class3
unemployed2
spirituality2
social history1
religious education of children1
textile fabrics1

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Great Britain10
Pontefract (England)1
Spain1
London (England)1
Leeds Region (England)1
England1
France1

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People and organisationsCount
Cary, John (1720)4
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton (1766-1809)3
Bellers, John (1654-1725)3
Ruggles, Thomas (1737?-1813)2
Gilbert, Thomas (1798)2
Firmin, Thomas (1632-1697)2
Butel-Dumont, Georges-Marie2
Butel-Dumont, Georges-Marie (1725-1788)2
Lawson, Thomas (1630-1691)1
Great Britain. Parliament1

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A discourse on trade : and other matters relative to it : viz. of trade in general : of the trade of England : of husbandry, feeding, tillage, corn, fruit, fish, minerals, trees, manufactures, sheep-wool, hemp and flax...[etc.]

Cary, John (1720)

1745

Half title page, p. [147]: An account of the proceedings of the corporation of Bristol, in execution of the act of parliament for the better employing and maintaining the poor of that city. Separate...

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The advantage of employing the poor in useful labour, and mischief of idleness, or ill-judg'd business. In a sermon preach'd at St. Mary's in Beverley, October 10, 1725

Johnston, Sam

[1725]

Half-title: 'Mr. Johnston's sermon preach'd at St. Mary's in Beverley, October 10, 1725. [Price Six-Pence.]'. The verso of the half-title contains advertisements for books sold by Mancklin. Indexe...

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An essay for imploying the poor to profit : humbly dedicated and presented to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled

Bellers, John (1654-1725)

1723

Bellers' "To the yearly, quarterly, and monthly meeting of Great Britain, and elsewhere" appears to be a continuation of this work.

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Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre (v.1)

Cary, John (1720); Butel-Dumont, Georges-Marie (1725-1788)

1755

Translated and augmented by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont of: Essay on the state of England.--Cf. NUC pre-1956.

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Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre (v.2)

Cary, John (1720); Butel-Dumont, Georges-Marie (1725-1788)

1755

Translated and augmented by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont of: Essay on the state of England.--Cf. NUC pre-1956.

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