A 1677 English pamphlet by Richard Haines proposing that every county build a working almshouse or hospital where the poor, children, beggars and vagrants would be employed spinning flax and hemp for linen cloth. It argues that this would keep money in the kingdom, improve land through flax and hemp growing, and relieve parishes, with calculations of output and cost. Haines describes a spinning engine, in which one man turns 50 wheels for 100 spinners, and a hemp-beating engine. He answers a series of objections, and a postscript adds further answers and notes the approval of Prince Rupert.