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LETTERS

ON THE

IMPORTANCE

OF THE

RISING GENERATION

O F

The laboring part of our fellow-fubjects.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING

An account of the miferable flate of the infant parish poor; the great usefulness of the hospital for expofed and deserted young children properly restricted; the obligations of parochial officers; and an historical detail of the whole mortality of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this time.

LETTERS

ON THE

IMPORTANCE

OF THE

RISING GENERATION

O F

The laboring part of our fellow-fubjects;

BEING

An account of the miferable state of the infant parish poor ;
the great usefulness of the hofpital for expofed and deferted
children properly restricted; the obligations of paro-
chial officers; and an historical detail of the whole mortality
of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this time.

young

WITH

Political, moral, and religious obfervations on the education
and inftruction of the poor, marriage, and population.
Reflexions on the causes of the high price of provifions; the
danger of the national debt, expensive living, and want of
zeal for our common welfare.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

By JONAS HANWAY, Efq;

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR and T. CADELL, oppofite Catherine-
Street in the Strand; and C. MARSH and G. WOODFALL,
at Charing-Crofs.

MDCCLXVII,

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