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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

England and Scotland by the Accession of King James the First to the Crown of this Realm the Minds and Hearts of the People were so elevated with the prospect and great assurances they propounded to themselves of the future Tranquillity Peace Plenty Happiness and great Prosperity that in all probability was thereby likely to ensue that they thereupon became less industrious and laborious in their several Callings Trades Arts Mysteries Professions and ways of getting their Livelihoods and did much indulge themselves in the pleasant enjoyment of frequent and frolick Society by them call'd Good-fellowship which oft-times happened to be with such expence of Time and Money too that many of their Families became much impoverished thereby And the antient true and principal use of Inns Alehouses and Victualing-houses being for the Receipt Relief and Lodging of such People as are not able by greater quantities to make their Provision of Victuals became common Tipling Houses and places of Entertainment and Harbour of lewd and idle People to spend and consume their Money and their Time in lewd and drunken manner contrary to the true meaning of the principal intended Purposes of such Houses as the Parliament the first Year of King James the First observes It is therefore enacted by the said Parliament 1 Jac. 1. chap. 9. That if any Inn-keeper Victualer or Alehouse-keeper within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales do permit or suffer any Person or Persons inhabiting or dwelling in any City Town Corporate Village or Hamlet within the said Realm or Dominions where any such Inn Alehouse or Victualing-house is or shall be to remain and continue drinking or tipling in the same other than such as shall be invited by any Traveller and shall accompany him only during his necessary Abode there and other than labouring and Handicrafts-men in Cities and Towns Corporate and Market Towns upon the usual working days for one hour at Dinner-time to take their Diet in an Alehouse and other than Labourers and Workmen which for the following of their Work by the day or by the great in any City Town Corporate Market-Town or Village shall for the time of their said continuing in work there sojourn lodg or victual in any Inn Alehouse or Victualing-house other than for urgent and necessary occasions to be allowed by two Justices of the Peace That then every such Innkeeper Victualer and Alehouse-keeper shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the Sum of Ten Shillings of current Money of England to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed the same Offence being view'd and seen by any Mayor Bailiff or Justice of Peace within their several Limits or proved by the Oaths of two Witnesses to be taken before any Mayor Bailiff or any other head Officer or any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace who are authorized to administer the same within the Limits of their Commission The said Penalties to be levied by the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where the Offence or Offences shall be committed by way of Distress to be taken and detain'd for the said Forfeiture and for default of Satisfaction within six days next ensuing the same then to be presently apprized and sold and the Surplusage or Remainder over and above to be deliver'd to the Party distrained and for want of sufficient Distress the Offenders to be by the Mayor Bailiff or other head Officer or Justice or Justices of the Peace aforesaid committed to the common Goal there to remain until the same Penalty be truly paid If the Constable or Church-wardens neglect their Duty in levying or in default of Distress do neglect to certify the default of Distress by the space of twenty days then next ensuing to the Magistrates aforesaid within whose Jurisdiction the Offence is committed then every Person so offending shall forfeit for every such default the Sum of Forty Shillings to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods by Warrant from any such Magistrate within the Limits of their Jurisdictions respectively under his Hand and Seal if Payment be not made within six days next ensuing the taking of the said Distress and the Surplusage if any be to be delivered to the Party distrained and for want of sufficient the Constable or Church-wardens so offending to be by such Magistrate committed to the common Goal there to remain until the said Penalty or Penalties be truly paid Notwithstanding the Restraint put upon Inn-keepers Victualers and Alehouse-keepers by the Act of Parliament aforementioned and the Penalty to be incurred by them for suffering Tipling in their Houses the People did still continue their Bowsing Tipling and Carousing which by little and little arrived to that height of Excess that it usually ended and does so still in downright Drunkenness and grew so habitual and practicable that it was and still is even in a manner become an Epidemical Vice through the whole Realm for Punishing and Suppressing of which odious Sin in the fourth year of King James the First an Act of Parliament was made inflicting a Penalty upon Drunkards and such as continue drinking in Ale-houses In the preamble of which Act the Parliament takes notice of several Sins occasioned by and proceeding from Drunkenness as appears by what follows Stat. 4 Jac. 1. Ch. 5. Whereas the loathsom and odious Sin of Drunkenness is of late years grown into common use within this Realm being the Root and Foundation of many other enormous Sins as Bloodshed Stabbing Murder Swearing Fornication Adultery and such like to the great dishonour of God and of the Nation the overthrow of many good Arts and manual Trades the disabling of divers Workmen and the general impoverishing of many good Subjects abusively wasting the good Creatures of God It is therefore Enacted That all and every Person and Persons that shall be drunken and of the same Offence of Drunkenness shall be lawfully Convicted shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose five Shillings to be paid within one Week next after Conviction to the hands of the Church-warden of that Parish where the Offence shall be committed who shall be accountable for it to the use of the said Poor and if the Persons convicted refuse or neglect to pay then the same to be levied of their Goods by Warrant or Precept from the same Court Judg or Justices before whom the said Conviction shall be And if the Offenders be not able to pay the Penalty then to be committed to the Stocks for every Offence there to remain by the space of six Hours And if any Officer of the Place where the Offence shall be committed upon a Precept sent to him shall neglect his Duty in correcting the Offenders or in due Levying the Penalties where Distress may be had then the Officer so offending shall forfeit ten Shillings to the use of the

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Immorality Debauchery and Profaneness Exposed To the Reproof of Scripture and the Censure of the Law Containing a Compendium of the Penal Laws now in Force against Idleness Profaneness and Drunkenness Houses of unlawful Games profane Swearing and Cursing speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament disturbing of Ministers profane jesting with the Name of God absenting from the Church profanation of the Lord's Day Debauched Incontinency and Bastard-getting With several Texts of Scripture prohibiting such Vices Also a brief Collection of several signal Judgments of God against Offenders in the said Vices and Debaucheries Published for the Advancement of Reformation of Manners so happily begun and carried on by several Societies By G. MERITON Gent. Righteousness exalteth a Nation but Sin is a Reproach to any People Prov. 14. 34. God will wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his Wickedness Psal 68. 21. LONDON Printed for John Harris and Andrew Bell at the Harrow in Little Britain and at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil 1698. To the Honourable PAUL FOLEY Esq SPEAKER OF THE Honourable House of Commons And to the rest of the Honourable and Worthy Members of that High Council of the Realm now assembled in Parliament This COMPENDIUM is humbly dedicated by G. MERITON THE PREFACE TO THE READER Reader OVR Gracious Soveraign King William having observed the spreading growth of profane vitious and profligate Debauchery and Immorality within this Realm out of his devout and pious Zeal for the Honour of God the advancement of true Religion and the Credit and Welfare of this his Kingdom of England in his most gracious Speech to both the Houses of Parliament at the opening of this present Session tells them That he esteems it one of the greatest Advantages of Peace that he shall now have leisure to rectify such Corruptions or Abuses as may have crept into any part of the Administration during the War and effectually to discourage Profaneness and Immorality And to that purpose his Majesty has not only issued out his Proclamation for the discouraging of all Debauchery Profaneness and Immorality and commanded the same to be read in every Church and publick Chappel four times in the year but has also required all his Judges Justices of the Peace and other Magistrates and Officers within their several Limits and Jurisdictions according to their several Powers and Authorities to put the Laws made against Profaneness and Immorality effectually in execution And has likewise recommended the further Care of the more effectual suppressing Debauchery Profaneness and Immorality to the Consideration of the Parliament who have prepared a Bill for that purpose And every good Christian ought devoutly to join with the Church in that Prayer appointed by her Liturgy to be read for the Parliament when sitting That God would be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the advancement of his Glory the good of his Church the Safety Honour and Welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their Endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all Generations And as every one ought thus to pray so also every individual Person within this Realm ought as a Reverend and Grave Divine lately declared in his Pulpit according to his Capacity and the Post he is placed in to contribute his Help and Assistance towards the carrying on this great and pious work of Reformation In compliance wherewith and to manifest my good Will by contributing towards the carrying on this great and good Work I have compil'd this Essay as a Compendium of the Laws now in force against Idleness Profaneness Drunkenness Swearing c. and for the more effectual enforcing the Observation of the same I have after the said Laws set down several Texts of Scripture against such Sins and after them lest some by their long continued wicked Courses be so hardned in their Sins that neither Law nor Gospel will restrain them I have given an Account of several exemplary Judgments of God upon such as have accustomed themselves in the practice of such profane Vices in hopes that upon the perusal thereof such as walk and tread in the same Steps may be brought to a sight and sense of their Sins repent of their Wickedness and resolve to lead a new Course of Life There are some other Laws against suspicious Persons that walk by Night and sleep by Day keep lewd Company and frequent lewd Houses 39 Eliz. Ch. 4. 43 Eliz. Ch. 2. 7 Jac. 1. Ch. 4. and against wandring Rogues 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 7. But the other Vices aforementioned being the customary and provoking Sins of the Nation and these others last mentioned not so common and the Laws made against them not so properly falling under the Title of this Compendium I have therefore purposely omitted the inserting of them And such Readers as are desirous to inform themselves herein may have recourse to the several Statutes as they are here cited But I shall proceed no further only desire that this small Treatise may in some measure effect its intended purpose and prove serviceable to the Publick which is the hearty prayer of G. 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