Mr, JVhnpey on (Economical Regiflers. 141 
of the place of his refidence from the parifh 
officers, or from fome one of them. 
If any labouring man, handicraft- man, artificer, 
or workman of any fort, (hall come as a firanger 
into any town, and afk employment, the perfon 
who employs him ffiall firfi: demand a fight of 
his medal, take a copy of its infcription, and by 
the firfi: poll fend a letter of advice to the officers 
of the parifh he came from. And in neglect or 
contempt of fuch advice, he fhall be liable to a 
penalty fufficient to compel its ftridt obfervance. 
Upon this plan, fhould any fervant, day- 
labourer, or workman of any fort, abfcond 
from his place of abode for any mifdemea- 
nor, or trefpafs he had committed, he could 
not proceed many days unapprehended ; for 
no perfon fhould be fuffered to entertain a 
ftranger above one night, without taking a copy 
of his medal, and fending advice to his parifh. 
A man could not then run away, defert his 
family, and throw them as a burden on the 
parifh, becaufe detection would immediately 
purfue him, bring him back in difgrace, and 
infiift an adequace punifhment upon him. 
Were fuch a plan to be prolecuted with vigour, 
it would be a fufficient bar to every attempt of. 
thievery and roguery, for impunity in which, the 
delinquent ultimately depended upon defertion. 
No man, in his fenfes, could depend upon a means 
for his fccurity, in which he knew before-hand it 
would 
