An account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom
Subtitle: 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
By: published with the approbation of a considerable number of the Lords spiritual and temporal
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Printed for B. Aylmer
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Moral conditions; Societies; Vice control
Notes: 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.

"An abstract of the penal-laws against immorality and prophaneness".

Reproduction of the original from the Ida Rust MacPherson Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College.