JB/119/224/001

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Panopticon BillMetasylum

as with equal degrees of merit old established hands will
naturally find it easier to get work than new ones And
Whereas in proportion as men are free to choose they
will avoid engaging in overstocked trades And Whereas
all that restraint can in this particular do more
than liberty is to force men in upon such trades and
thereby aggravate if not create whatever mischief it may
have been meant to remedy And Whereas by a
Statute of the third year of his Majesty's reign, the liberty
of exercising any trade was (without any exception in
respect to trade or place but that of the two Universities)
given to all such men as in the capacity either of Mariners
or Soldiers had thentofore been employed in his Majesty's
service & not deserted, as also to their wives & children,
the same composing alltogether a multitude who by
their number could not but contribute much more to the
overstocking of employments in general, and by their
quality of guiltless subjects stood less in need of incitements
to industry than men whose aversion thereto has been
manifested by their crimes And Whereas the
prosecution of one such member of a family for the
exercising of a trade which is allowed to be exercised
by another member of the same family would be
productive of much vexation & of no use And Whereas

Identifier: | JB/119/224/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	224	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / d10 / d11 / d12
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39735
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