An account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom [electronic resource] : with a persuasive to persons of all ranks to be zealous and diligent in promoting the execution of the laws against prophaneness and debauchery for the effecting a national reformation / published with the approbation of a considerable number of the Lords spiritual and temporal.

Author
Woodward, Josiah, 1655 or 6-1712 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for B. Aylmer ..., and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699.
Description
[22], 163, [9] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.

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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.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.
References
  • Wing W3512.
  • OCLC, 20884372
OCLC
20884372
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