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 against prophaneness and debauchery for the effecting a national reformation / published with the approbation of a considerable number of the Lords spiritual and temporal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vice control.

Moral conditions.

Great Britain--Moral conditions--Societies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Vice control--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for B. Aylmer ..., and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699.

System Details:

text file

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.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65321728

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.