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By the Queen, a proclamation, for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
England and Wales. Sovereign (1702-1707 : Anne)
Contributor:
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Blasphemy--Early works to 1800.
Blasphemy.
Card games--Early works to 1800.
Card games.
Sunday--Early works to 1800.
Sunday.
Alcoholism--Early works to 1800.
Alcoholism.
Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.).
Place of Publication:
London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, printers to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1702.
Notes:
Arms as 134; Steele notation: Careful Imployed of.
At end of text: "Given at Our court at Whitehall, the twenty sixth day of March, 1702. In the first year of Our reign.".
"No one to play dice or cards on the Lord's Day, all to attend worship. All judges and officers to be strict and punish severely all excessive drinking, blasphemy, lewdness, profanation of the Lord's Day, ...". -- Steele.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Cited in:
Steele I, 4314
Early English books tract supplement interim guide 816.m.3[140]
Early English books tract supplement interim guide 21.h.3[233]

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