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The Giving excessive Pay to the Poor, hath greatly occa∣sioned their extravagant Expences, and occasioned Idleness in them, and discouraged Industry in others: The Allowance commonly given to Persons maintained by a Parish, being three times as much as an honest Labourer, who with his Wife maintains three Children can afford to do; which many hundreds in the County do, and that in a decent manner; as may appear by the proportion next mentioned.