Details

Subject(s)

• Vice control—Great Britain—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Great Britain—Moral conditions—Societies, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Series

• Making of the Modern World, Part I : The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850. [More in this series]
• The Making of the Modern World, Part I : The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850

Notes

• Advertisements: p. [1], 3rd group.
• Includes (p. [3]-[22], 1st group): By the King. A proclamation for preventing and punishing immorality and prophaneness [dated Feb. 24, 1697/8]; Her late Majesties gracious letter, in the absence of the King, to the justices of the peace in the county of Middlesex, July 9, 1691, for the suppressing of prophaneness and debauchery; The humble address of the House of Commons to the King for the suppressing of prophaneness and vice [undated]; and a letter to the author signed by the Lords spiritual and temporal.
• "An abstract of the penal-laws against immorality and prophaneness": p. [2]-[9], 3rd group.
• Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
• Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 03615.

Other title(s)

Account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom

OCLC

65321728

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