1679 PUBLIC WORKING ALMS-HOUSES 006. HAINES, Richard. A method of government for such working publick alms-houses as may be erected in every county for bringing all idle hands to Industry. As the best expedient for restoring and advancing the woollen manufacture. Humbly offered to the Kings most excellent majesty and both houses of parliament. London. Printed for Langley Curtis on Ludgate-hill, 1679. 4to. 8p. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards. A very nice copy. WING H 201A. GOLDSMITHS 2321. Not in KRESS. Rare. WING records an edition 1670 which is not in Goldsmiths. The printing of the "9" in the date of the present copy is obscure and it is possible that it could be read as "0". The classic proposal, typical of the thinking of late seventeenth century philanthropists, of bringing " all Poor People and idle hands to Industry...as the only effectual way to do this it is proposed, That two or three, or more, Publick Work-houses be Erected in every County, where all such poor people and idel hands may under good Governance be constantly employed in that Manufacture... "