1735 PUTTING THE POOR TO WORK 031. LINDSAY, Patrick. Reasons for encouraging the linnen manufacture of Scotland, sand other pares of Great-Britain. Humbly submitted to Parliament. By the Author of the Interest of Scotland consider'd, etc. London: Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head. 1735. 63p. Recent wrappers. HANSON 4809. GOLDSMITHS 7272. KRESS 4227. Patrick Lindsay published in 1733 The Interest of Scotland considered with regard to its Police in employing the Poor. The present pamphlet published two years later continues the same theme: " I shall now beg leave to close this paper with observations upon the present state of the Poor, who in many parts of England, as well as Scotland, are a Burthen upon the Publick, and a loss to the Nation; but if care was taken to employ them in profitable labour, they would become our best fund for increasing our national wealth and strength...I here submit... if it might not be proper to make a collection or abstract of all the laws that have been, and now are in force, both in England and Scotland, that from these the nation might reap the benefit of a new Law to be extended and put into execution over the whole united kingdom, for restraining of idelness , in the Poor, and obliging them to work less or more at some kind of profitable labour, in proportion to their state of health, and ability of body, that should be adapted and suited to the circumstances of every country and province within this island, wherein so many various manufactures are carried on, that are capable to employ all our Poor, were they by proper laws constrained to work."