who yet do work sometimes, or Follow any imployment, the
loss of their time in frequent tipling, the getting often
Drunk in the Morning, and the spending of their Money
this way must very much Cramp and straighten them,
and so farr diminish their Trade, and the profit which
would accrew from the use to the publick as well as to
themselves. But it is further to be observed, that altho the
retail Trade of Wine and Ale, is generally confin'd to
Vintners and Victuallers , this of Geneva, is now sold not
only by Distillers and Geneva Shopps, but by most other
inferior Traders, particularly by all Chandlers, many
Weavers and several Tobacconists Dyers, Carpenters,
Gardiners , Shoemakers Laborers and others, there being
in the Hamlet of Bethnal Green only, above fourty
Weavers who sell this Liquor, and these and other
Trades which make our Manufactures, generally
imploying many Journymen and Artificers under
them, who having this Liquor allways ready at hand
are easily tempted to drink freely of it, especially as they
may drink the whole week upon score and perhaps
without minding how fast the score rises upon them,
whereby at the weeks, end, they find themselves,
without any Surplusage to carry home to their family
which of course must starve or be thrown on the parish
And this Evil (wherein the Masters perhaps may find
their own account by drawing back the greatest part of
their Workmens Wages) will naturally go on increasing
and extend to most other Trades, where numbers of
Workmen are imployed, your Comittee apprehend, it
may (if not timely prevented) effect our Manufacturer
in the most sensible manner, and be of the last
Consequence to our Trade and Welfare.

Under this Head it may be proper also to take some notice, of
the pernitious influence, the permitting of Chandlers
and other inferiour Trades to Deal in this distructive
Liquor or any other Strong Waters, has in this Town on
the Servants of the nobility and Gentry, It being too