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