hods already in Use) are
the greatest Part of the Parish Poor all over _England_, _Wales_,
_Scotland_, and _Ireland_; so that they should be burdened with none but
such as are very old, very young, or else sickly or disabled, which
would prove a very grateful Ease in most Places, where the general
Complaint is the vast Charge of a numerous Poor; all which might easily
be maintained and employed in _Virginia_, in proper Trades, Inventions,
and Projects, and do great Good to themselves and the Publick.

Here might Work be cut out for Thousands that now pretend to want
Business; and many that now thro' Laziness decline Endeavours to support
themselves and Families, would then seek for Employment, and set to
work in Earnest, being frighten'd into Industry and Labour, through the
dreadful Apprehension of being sent to the Plantations; for such as
could not or would not maintain themselves, and all Girls and Boys that
are in no likelihood of doing this, should have their Names returned to
the Justices by the Church-Wardens and Overseers, at the
Quarter-Sessions, who upon Examination should give Orders for their
Transportation; then would the Parish be eased, and might easily have
honest and laborious People enough to do their Business and Work,
without the Charge of Abundance of lazy or poor People.

These should be sent over at the Expence of the Parish, and their Labour
would soon repay the Cost, and the Overplus might be applied for the
Service of the Parish; so that these would soon maintain the rest of
their Poor, and bring _in_ good Gain to themselves and their
Parishioners in Time, if they were under some such Restrictions, and had
some such Privileges as the first Sort of unfortunate People here
mentioned.

But if these Methods of Transportation be thought impracticable, at the
Expence, and for the Benefit of the Government, the Counties, and the
Parishes, yet might other Contrivances be found to transport the People
above specified, besides the Methods now practiced by some to transport
themselves, and by Mr. _Forward_ and some Merchants for sending over
continually all sorts of Servants; but the present Number is but a
Trifle in respect of what might be sent over, were Laws made for the
better Encouragement thereof, and due Regulations made for the
Employment and Provision of such great Numbers as might yearly be sent
over. For when they are there they need not be employed about Tobacco
and Corn, as they generall