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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Several of the Prisoners are under confinement for a
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Week to be passed to their different Parishes
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There appears a Defect in the Police of the Country with
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We find on Enquiry it is the Practice to send them a few Miles
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from Town, where they easily find means of being again at Liberty
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having no means of subsistence, no Character on a sufficient
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Stock of Health to procure them any kind of Labour, they must
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either take to begging or stealing, and are frequently in a short
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discharged.
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The Cause of this Observation arises from a Man from
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Ireland
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who is ordered to be passed to that County.
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On Enquiry the Sub Committee find some of the Women
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understand knitting
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Ordered a small Quantity of Worsted to be bought and
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given them by way of Trial for making Stockings under the
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in the Shilling of what they earn.
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Mr. Hardwicke is likeways Desired to send some of
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the Men to Knitting-by way of trial
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Robt. Hunter
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Jno Read
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Granville Sharp
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