Original sentence: Among other methods, the "Second Society" employed a blacklist which they published annually to shame the alleged offenders.In 1727, Hitchen was accused of sodomitical practices, and tried for of sodomy (a capital offence) and attempted sodomy.It was one of many similar societies founded in that period, marking a sea-change in the social attitudes in England following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, shifting from the socially liberal attitudes of the Restoration period under Charles II and James II to a more moral and censorious attitude of respectability and seriousness under William and Mary.Its espoused aims were the suppression of profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and of brothels and prostitution in particular
Edited sentence: Among other methods, the "Second Society" employed a blacklist which they published annually to shame "offenders".In 1727, Hitchen was accused of "sodomitical practices", and tried for of sodomy (a capital offence) and attempted sodomy.It was one of many similar societies founded in that period, marking a sea-change in the social attitudes in England following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, shifting from the tolerant liberality of the Restoration period under Charles II and James II to a more "moral" and censorious attitude of respectability and seriousness under William and Mary.Its espoused aims were the suppression of profanity, immorality, and other "lewd" activities in general, and of brothels and prostitution in particular