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Stanleyes Remedy: or, The Way how to reform wandring Beggers, Theeves, high-way Robbers and Pick-pockets. Woodcut of beggar on A2r. [2], 6 pages. Small 4to, 19th-century 1/2 calf, rebacked retaining most of darkened and badly worn original backstrip; contents clean. London: Printed for the good of the Poore, 1646
first edition of a description of the proposal by an Elizabethan "Inns of Court Gentleman" and reformed highway robber for establishing work-houses for the poor throughout the country, based on the assumption that idleness is the chief source of crime and social problems. Wing S5250 and ESTC locate 4 copies in Great Britain and 3 (Columbia, Harvard, Yale) in the U. S.
