Bread for the poor, or, A method shewing how the poor may be maintained and duly provided for in a far more plentiful and yet cheaper manner than now they are without waste or want.

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Title: Bread for the poor, or, A method shewing how the poor may be maintained and duly provided for in a far more plentiful and yet cheaper manner than now they are without waste or want.
Author: R. D. (Richard Dunning)
Publication: Exeter [Devon] :: Printed by Samuel Darker for Charles Yeo, John Pearce and Philip Bishop,; 1698.
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Fourth Cause of the chargeableness of the Poor.

Several of the Poor have ordinarily one House a-piece, in∣tirely to themselves; which would conveniently serve three or four of them, and the same Fire, Candle-light, and At∣tendance that now serves but one, might serve three, or four; and in many particulars, they might assist, help, and comfort one another; only their Unwillingness, to have their Idleness, Filching, and Profuseness in Diet discovered, makes them extream averse against such Cohabiting.