TO THE
BEGGARS
IN ALL THE
Parishes of DUBLIN.
BY THE
DEAN of St. PATRICK's
LONDON,
Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater Noster Row.
MDCCXXXVII.
Price Six Pence.
NOTE.
The "badging" of beggars was a favourite scheme of Swift's for the better regulation of the many who infested the city of Dublin as tramps and idlers. While many of these were really deserving persons, there were a great many also who made the business of begging a profession. Eleven years before this tract was printed Swift wrote to Archbishop King on the same subject, as will be seen from the letter quoted in the note on pages 326-327.