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<p n="435">With Regard to their Families, this pernicious Liquor is equally<lb></lb>
fatal, whilst the Husband & perhaps his Wife also are drinking & Spending<lb></lb>
their money in Geneva Shops, their Children are Starving <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
& Naked at home<lb></lb>
without bread or Cloaths, and either become a Burthen to their parishes<lb></lb>
or being Suffered to Ramble about the streets, are forced to begg whilst<lb></lb>
they are Children, And Learn as they grow upto pilfer and Steal<lb></lb>
which your Committee conceive to be one of the Chief Causes of the<lb></lb>
Vast Increase of Thieves and pilferers of all Kinds, and may be<lb></lb>
the true Reason why the yould for Some Years last past have<lb></lb>
been observed Sooner to grow vitious and to throw off all Regard<lb></lb>
to Laws both human & Divine.</p>
<p n="436">We would here further Observe, that rather than go<lb></lb>
without this destructive Liquor, Custom having made the Habit<lb></lb>
so strong upon them, they will even pawn their own & Children's<lb></lb>
Cloaths, and Cheat by all the Ways and Means they can Devise to<lb></lb>
raise Money on this Occasion, the usuall and almost Certain<lb></lb>
Consequence of which is, the Husband is thrown into a Goal, And his<lb></lb>
whole Family on the Parish. And this your Committee conceive to be<lb></lb>
one of the principle Causes of the great Increase of Beggars &<lb></lb>
Parish Poor, Not withstanding the high Wages now given to all<lb></lb>
Sorts of Workmen and Servants</p>
<p n="437">And Lastly with Regard to Trade and the publick Wellfare<del>of</del>
<lb></lb>
the Consequences are visibly Ruinous and destructive, and will be<lb></lb>
Every day more and more felt & perceived.</p>
<p n="438">It has been already observed, that the Constant use of Strong<lb></lb>
Waters and particularly of Geneva never fails to produce an<lb></lb>
invincible Aversion to work and Labour, this by necessary Conse-<lb></lb>
-quence Deprives us of great Numbers of usefull hands which<lb></lb>
would be otherwise Employed to the advantage of the Publick<lb></lb>
And as to those who yet do work sometimes or follow any Employment<lb></lb>
the less of their time in frequent tippling, the getting often drunk<lb></lb>
in a Morning and the spending of their Money this way, must<lb></lb>
very much Straiten them and so farr diminish their Trade<lb></lb>
And the profit which Would Accrue from thence to the publick<lb></lb>
as well as to themselves.</p>
<p n="439">It appears, as has been already mentioned, that great Numbers<lb></lb>
of Weavers, and other persons of Inferior Trades concerned in our<lb></lb>
Manufactures, deal in these Liquors; And as they generally employ<lb></lb>
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, and Artificers under them, this Liquor being<lb></lb>
thus allways ready at hand at their Masters houses, they are Easily<lb></lb>
tempted to Drink freely of it, Especially as they may drink a<lb></lb>
whole Week upon Score and too often without minding how fast the<lb></lb>
Score runs upon thence, whereby at the Weeks End they find them-<lb></lb>
-selves without any surplus age to Carry home to their Families which<lb></lb>
of Course must Starve or be thrown on the Parish.</p>
<p n="440">Your Commee are also of Opinion that the publick Wellfare & Safety of<lb></lb>
the Nation will be greatly affected by it Considering the Strong Inili-<lb></lb>
-nations in the Soldiery to drink freely and to Excess of this destruc-<lb></lb>
-tive Liquor. Let any person pass a Shop where Geneva is sold<lb></lb>
it is great Odds but that he will find there one or more Soldiers either<lb></lb>
drinking of, or Drunk with these Liquors And it is to be feared<lb></lb>
the Constitutions & Strength of many of our Soldiers are already<lb></lb>
Greatly Impaired by this pernicious Custom, And how farr<lb></lb>
they</p>
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