THE

HISTORY

OF THE

POOR;

THEIR

RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND THE
LAWS RESPECTING THEM.

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.

BY THO. RUGGLES, Esq. F. A. S.
One of his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace
for the Counties of Effex and Suffolk.

PRINTED FOR J. DEIGHTON, NO. 325, OPPOSITE
GRAY'S-INN GATE, HOLBORN,

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WHEN

HEN I at firft determined to revife the following Letters, and to publish them in a volume diftinct from that useful Agricultural Register *, wherein they first appeared; it was my intention to addrefs them to Mr. Pitt, under an abfurd perfuafion, that a minister of ftate is expected, as it were, ex officio, to read those treatises which are, through the medium of the prefs, directed for his perufal; and also from a belief that if he did perufe, he might, from the detail of what has

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