Provisions
CONTRASTED,

From the Year 1775, to the Year 1795. & 1800

AS Numbers of People are led away with the Idea (particularly the Rich), that the Price of some Sorts of Labour is Paid for far beyond what is actually sufficient for the Support of the Poor: in order, if possible, to convince such of the Error of those Conceptions, and to Point out the absolute Necessity for an Advance in all Kinds of Work which must be done by the laborious Part of the Community. The following Table of the Comparison of the Price of the Necessities of Life, for a Family confifting of a Man, his Wife, and five or fix Children, drawn by actual Experience, from the Periods above-mentioned; One Week's Support is submitted to their Inspection by a Friend to Humanity, whose sole View and Wifh is, that those who have it in their Power may Relieve the oppressed and groaning POOR from the heavy Burthen they now labour under.

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th>s.</th><th>d.</th><th>s.</th><th>d.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="6">1775</td></tr><tr><td>Bread, 6 Half Peck Loaves at 1</td><td>1</td><td>is</td><td>6</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Meat, 14lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>4</td><td>is</td><td>4</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Soap, 2lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>5&frac12;</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>Candles, 1lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Butter, 3lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>is</td><td>1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Cheese, 2lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>3&frac12;</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Starch, 1&frac12;lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Small Beer, Three Gallons,</td><td></td><td></td><td>0</td><td>9</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Milk, One Gallon</td><td></td><td></td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Vegtables,</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Coals, Three Pecks,</td><td></td><td></td><td>0</td><td>9</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

For One Week in 1775,

17 11

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th>s.</th><th>d.</th><th>s.</th><th>d.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="6">1795.</td></tr><tr><td>Bread, 6 Half Peck Loaves at 2</td><td>0</td><td>is</td><td>12</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Meat, 14lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>7</td><td>is</td><td>8</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Soap, 2lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>is</td><td>1</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Candles, 1lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>11</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>Butter, 3lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>is</td><td>2</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Cheese, 2lb.</td><td>at</td><td>0</td><td>7</td><td>is</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Starch, 1&frac12;lb.</td><td>at</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>is</td><td>0</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Small Beer, Three Gallons</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Milk, One Gallon</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>8</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Vegtables</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Coals, Three Pecks,</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

For One Week in 1795,

£.1 12 10

Exclusive of House Rent, Taxes, and all Sorts of Wearing Apparel, which must clearly Point out to the World the Necessity of a further Advance in Labour to the Induſtrious Part of the Community.

For it is Written, "Blessed is he that Confidereth the Poor and Needy, the LORD shall Deliver him in the Day of Trouble."

O would that Monopoly was fupprefled those Grievances would be no more.

Printed for CITIZEN SHAW, (Shaver to the Swinefish Multitude) at the BLOOMING TREE of LIBERTY, No. 4, Cranbourn Alley, Leicester Fields.