Considerations on the bill for obliging all parishes in this kingdom to keep proper registers of births, deaths, and marriages: and for raising therefrom a fund towards the support of the hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children. In a letter to a member of Parliament

People / Organizations

• Mary Cooper ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for M Cooper, at the Globe, in Paternoster-Row, [1759]

Publication year

1759

ESTC No.

N2045

Grub Street ID

9851

Description

[2],35,[1]p. ; 8°.

Note

Sometimes attributed to Francis Maseres

Charges that the projected hospital would encourage parents to abandon children

Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.

Uncontrolled note

Attribution from Higgs, H. Bibliography of economics 1751-1775. No attribution in NUC or DNB