An account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom : with a persuasive to persons of all ranks, to be zealous and diligent in promoting the execution of the laws agaist 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, 1660-1712 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for B. Aylmer ... and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, Mdcxcix [1699]
Description
1 online resource ([23], 163, [9] pages)

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Subject(s)
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks. [More in this series]
Notes
  • "An abstract of the penal-laws against immorality and prophaneness".
  • Advertising: p. [1], 3rd count.
  • 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.
  • Reproduction of the original from the Ida Rust MacPherson Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College.
OCLC
606628060
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