Excerpt from Diary of John Evelyn Esq., F. R. S, Vol. 4: To Which Are Added a Selection From His Familiar Letters and the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. And Sir Edward Nicholas and Between Sir Edward Hyde (Afterwards Earl of Clarendon) And Sir Richard Browne To these should likewise be com 1tted the care of the Manufactures of the kingdome, with stock for employment of the poore; by which might be mode rated that unreasonable statute for their reliefas now in force) occasioning more idle persons, w charge the publi without all reamedy, than other wise there woul be, insufl'erably burdening the parishes, by being made to carne their bread honestly, who now cate it in idleness, 8: take it out of the mouthes of the truely indigent, much inferior 1n num ber, worthy ob ects of charity. It 13 by such a Council that the swarmes of private traders, who, tho' not appearing in mighty torrents streames, yet like a confluence of silent, almost 1n discernable, but 1n umerable riveletts, do evidently draine exhaust the greater fiydropeylacza maga zines, nay the very vital blood of trade, where there is no follower to supply those many issues, without which the constitution of the body politic, like the natural, needes must fail for want of nourishment 81. Recruits. But whom this article affects I have spoken in my discourse of Mony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.