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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56029	Proposals for a national reformation of manners humbly offered to the consideration of our magistrates & clergy : to which is added, I. the instrument for reformation : II. an account of several murders, &c. and particularly a bloody slaughter-house discover'd in Rosemary-lane ... : as also the black roll, containing the names and crimes of several hundreds persons, who have been prosecuted by the society, for whoring, drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, &c. / published by the Society for Reformation.	Societies for the Reformation of Manners.	1694 (1694)	Wing P3725; ESTC R4427	27,307	37

denounce that Woe against All who shall attempt to obstruct this National Reformation in most humble manner thus presented to the Higher Powers our Supreme Magistrates and Ministers the pious Governours of the Civil and Ecclesiastick State Woe be unto that man by whom this offence shall come It had been better for him that a mill-stone were hung about his neck and that he was cast into the bottom of the sea THE INSTRUMENT FOR Reformation WHEREAS His Majesty in his Letter to the Bishops hath declared his most earnest desire of a General Reformation of the Lives and Manners of all his Subjects And the Queen's Majesty in her Letter to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Middlesex at their Sessions at Hicks's-Hall hath Charged and Required Them to use the most effectual Methods for putting the Laws in Execution against all manner of Profaneness and Wickedness Whereas also both Their Majesties have lately Issued out Their Proclamation against Vitious Debauched and Profane Persons wherein they declare the deep Sense of the Goodness and Mercy of Almighty God by whom Kings Reign in giving so happy Successes to their Endeavours for the Rescuing of these Kingdoms from Popish Tyranny and Superstition c. So also they are not less touched with a Resentment that notwithstanding these great Deliverances Impiety and Vice still abounds in this Kingdom And that the Execution ofmanygood Laws that have been made for the Suppressing and Punishing thereof hath been grosly neglected to the great Dishonour of God and Religion Wherefore they further declare their Princely Resolution to discountenance all manner of Vice and for that purpose they straitly Charge Require and Command all Judges Mayors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace and all other Officers Ecclesiastical and Civil in their respective Stations to Execute the Laws against Blasphemy profane Swearing and Cursing Drunkenness Lewdness Profanation of the Lord's Day or any other dissolute immoral or disorderly Practice as they will answer it to Almighty God and upon pain of their Majesties highest Displeasure And for the more effectual Proceedings herein They direct and command Judges and Justices of the Peace to give strict Charges at the respective Assizes and Sessions for the due Prosecution and Punishment of all Persons that shall presume to offend in any the Kinds aforesaid and also of all Persons that contrary to their Duty shall be remiss or negligent in putting the said Laws in Execution as may be seen more at large in the said Royal Proclamation given at their Majesties Court at White-Hall Jan. 21. 1691 2 in the third Year of their Reign In pursuance hereof many excellent Orders have been given out particularly by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London The Bench of Justices at their General Quarter-Sessions held forthe County of Middlesex and also by the Justices at their General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Surry Wherein they Charge and Command all Counstables Headboroughs Church-wardens c. to use their utmost Endeavours to bring all Offenders against the Laws aforesaid to condign Punishment severely meancing their Negligence but promising to their Diligence herein all Encouragement Yet notwithstanding all this Vice and Wickedness abound in every place Lord's Days are still profaned Drunkenness and Lewdness escape unpunished our Ears in most Companies are filled with Imprecasions of Damnation the Corners of our Streets every where echo the horrible Sounds of Oaths Curses and blasphemous Execrations The blame of all this lies undoubtedly for the most part at the doors of Inferiour Officers Authority both Supream and Subordinate having sufficiently acquitted it self and worthily acted its part in giving forth strict Commands as aforesaid But these though they are intrusted to be the only immediate Executors of the Laws have neglected to put them in Execution Now as Execution is the life of Laws so their Non-execution being equivalent to an actual Repeal renders them useless or as if they never had a Being Hence it is that Wickedness grows rampant and Profaneness rides triumphant trampling upon all the Zeal and Piety of Virtuous Governours and Legislators making all their Religious Intentions and Resolutions void and of none effect How much the said Officers are concerned in this Guilt and which of them are most faulty we may easily see if we divide them into two Ranks and take a view first of those that will not do their Duties being conscious of their own wicked Inclinations and Actions they will not punish that Impiety in others which they allow of in themselves There are other Officers that are more conscientious Of these some are Tradesmen which willingly would but cannot spare time to give that Attendance that is requisite for the full discharge of their Offices without a manifest neglect of their Shops Trades and other Business And thus the best Laws for punishing and suppressing of Vice and Wickedness that are already or for the future can be made and enforced though by a thousand Proclamations and subordinate Orders will all prove ineffectual unless put in Execution by Under-Officers Of these as afore-mentioned some are profane and will not others would and something they do towards it but have not time to do to the full of what is required of them To remedy these great Inconveniencies and to answer the Great and Noble Ends of our Governours in making good Laws and pressing their Execution the Expedient as drawn up in the following Form is most humbly proposed We who are Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster and Parishes adjacent both in the Counties of Middlesex and Surry having an Eye to the Honour of God and the King and the publick Benefit of the Nation And being encouraged by the late happy Success that hath attended the industrious Endeavours of the Tower-Hamlets whereby according to a Method mentioned in their printed Paper or Instrument That declaring honest and joynt design for the general suppressing of Bawdy-houses c. they have with more than ordinary Diligence and great expence of their Time and Money in the space of two or three Years as lately Affidavit hath been made before the Bench of Justices at Hicks's Hall not only brought to due Punishment according to Law seven or eight hundred Criminals but also generally routed those naughty Houses which formerly abounded amongst them And being fluenced by that good old Principle or Axiom Bonum quo communius eo melius resolve to use our hearty Endeavours that so good a Work may no longer be consined within such narrow Limits but be farther promoted for more general Advantage WHEREFORE we agree upon our own Costs and Charges to imploy and maintain a competent Number of such fitting Persons as we shall choose to assist the several Constable and other Officers in the Wards of the said City of London and in other of the said adjacent Parishes in putting in Execution those good Laws aforesaid viz. by observing and taking notice of all those that

attending him he found three naked Men and three naked Women who had been Dancing and Revelling whom they apprehended and carryed to the Watch house and in the morning they were committed to Bridewel by Justice Vnderhill and were whipt with one more who came to vindicate them About three months after this the said Constable walking again the same Rounds and passing by this House heard a great outcry about of the clock in the night with much Swearing and Cursing who begg'd of one another that for the Lord's sake they would all be quiet The Constable thereupon waited without till they at last made a loud Outcry of Murder Murder Murder Whereupon he Commanded the door to be opened They refusing the said Constable forced it open with others of the Watch attending in the ground-room he could make no discovery but going up the Stairs he observed they were sprinkled with blood and forcing his way into the Chamber of the second floor after he had broke open the door he found blood in a Bowl and also in a Chamber-pot and a great quantity of blood lying in a hollow place in the midst of the floor and Two Women in bed Nothing would they confess but pretended the blood came by a cut of one of their fingers And going up into the Garaet the Constable observing those Stairs were also sprinkled and smear'd with blood they found blood sprinkled on the Ceiling and Walls and the floor was so full of congealed blood that it cover'd their soles and squasht under foot as if they had been in an Old SLAVGHTER HOVSE that wanted cleansing being so slippry they could scarce stand Which seems plainly to discover that blood had been there for some consideaable time c. Here they found Two young men upon a Bed in their Cloaths and in the said Garret there lay the Cloaths of another Man viz. his Coat Breeches Doublet Stockings Shoes Hat Wig. Craver but his Shirt was wanting The Constable and other Officers searched the House from the top of the tiles and downward and in every place and room even to the bottom three several times and could make no further discovery more then what was so Notorious Obvious and Tremendious to behold Nor would any of the Persons in the House Confess any thing more than a cut of one of their fingers whereupon they were committed to the Watch-house and a Gaurd set on the House and the next morning brought before Justice Constable and examined but confessed nothing and he sent them to Bridewell where they were Whipt severely and detained for sometime till further Evidence came in against them At last none Appearing they were discharged God grant these Extraordinary Providences may be seriously attended as no doubt it is intended to be for a Loud Warning from Heaven to the Licentious Youth in and about This City more especially to take heed what Company they frequent as being no small Temptation to draw forth their Corruption and to betray them into the most dangerous Snares of Death and Hell To prevent which Let every good Christian Pray with David LORD Order and direct my Steps in thy Paths that I may run all the ways of thy Precepts with delight then shall I not be ashamed when I shall have respect to All thy Commandements And we make no small Progress herein when we maintain such a constant fear and jealousie over our own Hearts and Lives as makes us daily with that Blessed Man to have our recourse to God by prayer Hold thou up my Steps in thy Paths that my feet slide not And when we fall LORD seek thy Servant that is gone Astray for I have not forgotten Thy Commandements A Black Roll Containing the real or reputed Names and Crimes of several Hundred Persons that have been Prosecuted by the Society this last Year for Whoring Drunkenness Thefts Sabbath-breaking c. as Delivered unto Them by their Clerk And been published for the satisfaction of many who have been desirous to know what progress we have made in this Reformation of Manners Some or these Persons have kept Bawdy-Houses some of whom have been Indicted and some Fined Mary Adams Mary Arrundell Sasah Allin Mary Abbitt Mary Anderson Jane Armstrong Elizabeth-Avem James and Sarah Ayres Elizabeth Ealy Elixabeth Earle Margaret Earen Mary Ev'nall Amey Eliot Sarah Edwards Alice Jones Christian King Mary 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 Ann 〈◊〉 Charity Squish Elizabeth Shift Mary Smith Rebecca Trimmer Mary Thorogood Jane Winchcomb Sarah Whitaker Mary Wilden Elizabeti Ealy Thousas Bowater Tho. and Sarah Burton Elizabeth Brown ●ane Bricksteck Henry Body Mrrtha Blefford Elizabeth Bushell Ann Bradbery Ann Brewrick Mary Bone Mary Banfield Joan Horsnaile Mary Hughes Mary Harrissen Dorothy Howell Elizabeih Faugh Elizabeth Jones Elizabeth King Susanna Lewis Sarah Moor Samuell Parker John Mary Packer Mary Quarles Elizabeth Raice John Sarah Rigway Alice Sprinkfield Susanna Stanley Sarah Scoot Margaret Seale Sarah Thompson Richard and Mary Thomas Alice Wilson Elizabeth Wheler Hannah Ware John and Eliz. Hedger Margaret Tillara George Codd Bridget Cotion Elizabeth Chettham Mary Cole Mary Copinger Mary Chetham Ann Chandler John and Ann Coleman Mary Dawson William Harper John Elizabeth Hedges Mary Hill Ann Holbrook Dorothy Howes Gatherine Flower Elizabeth Johnson Sarah Kea●h Elizabeth Leek Elizabeth Michel Tho. and Jane Pettit Elizabeth Fartree Ann Raye Temperance Reed Mary Reves William and Eliz. Smith Susanna Stuobs Millicent S●●ll Mary Swan Elizabeth Watts Mary Vincent Ann Watte Elizabeth White Mary White John and Mary Pannell And some C●r●ed Viz Dorithy Furlon John and Judith Frost Mary Fairfax Thomas Alice Gibbons William Groves Sarah Gorry Mary Gayrish Mary Garret John Durnhil John Hix Alias Hurst Many Harris Mary Hall John and Mary Hind Geo. and Mary Harrel Mary Jones Peter Elizabeth King Mary Knight John Elizabeth Long Mary Moor Mary Pa●mer Ann Mack Alice Randoll Sarah Rose Mary Randford Elizabeth Star Susan Spritgfield Arrundel Turner Elizabeth Topta Elizabeth Taylor Dorothy Williams Elizabeth Williams Elizabeth Whores Ann Winchcomb James Delafoy Night Walkers and Plyers in Bawdy Houses all or most of whom have been Whipt in Bridewell this Year Elizabeth Bates Elizabeth Bissel Elizabeth Brown Lidia Buckler Martha Bolt Mary Carr Mary Carroll Jane Desow Susann● Edwards Elizabeth Elliot Dorothy Flander Ann Goulding Elizabeth Harris Sarah Hilliard Margaret He●ger Elizabeth Hedger Elizabeth Heath Ann Kettle Mary Kempe Katherine Lewis Elizabeth Mills Jane Peters Ann Preston Ann Palmer Elizabeth Sammon Mary Turner Martha Tucker Ann Vickar Catherine Chilver Hannah Ribbey Mary White Elizabeth Thome Hannah Powell Elizabeth Lee Mary Madson Jane Glover Mary Jenkins Susanna Yates Jane Bayley Ann Bonuss Mary Bennet Mary Baker Katherine Dodd Mary Dupper Martha Davis Mercy Dickenson Jane Gloves Elizabeth Green Elizabeth Ginney Aun Harress Derothy Hall Marcha Harison Hannab Jackson Alice Jones Martha Morgan Elizabeth Messenger Ann Pearce Elizabeth Partre Elizabeth Poor Ann Sheldrick Elizabeth Smith Sarah Slaughter Mary Tanner Judith Trumbold Mary Trvelove Sarah Varrey Susadna Wilson Mary West Mary Osborne Frances Haughting Frances Palmes Patience Webbes Mary Jeffreys Elizabeth Prince Alice Springfield Phendal Mary Gibbs Alice Gibbs Stanley Mary Peach Isabel Good●in Elizabeth Bird Mary Haughton Alias Haughtry Thomys Newton John Stow Ann Green Sarah Moon Alias Thompson Mary Downing Katherine Lewis Wid. Wing Tho. Gibbon Ann Morris Alias Haber John Lockyer Edward Newby Wynn Margaret Tylard Mary Kinde Mrs Oram Mary Clark Gatton Mary Raughby Alias Haughton Alice Gobbons William Monday George Peter Katherine Moor Ann Worball Mary Long Mary Summers Ann Worrel Isabel Perry Alice Springfield Hugh Wilkinsou Lucy Michel Mrs. Arran Mary Tauner Mary D. George Peacock Samuel Jones Ann Jones Ann Newman Elizabeth Pierce Sarah Jefferis Hugh Wilkinson Ann Londay Jobe Laud Margaret Smith Hanna Lewis Ann Reed January 1612 3 Sarah Ellis Wm. Griffeth Thomas Bowater Ann Worrel Martha Flitcher Mary White Johanna Playshad Mary Osbourne Rainshorow Mary Kempe Mary Stevens Mary Baker Mary Alderman Alice Fendal Mary Clark Ann Slaughter Elizabeth Gouge Mary Reed Rebecca Bowman Lucy Basly Martha Griffen Rebecca Foster Jane Bluit Elizabeth Prince Sarah Cook Sarah Lacy FINIS Books lately Printed for John Dunton THE First Volume of the French Book of Martyrs Published with her Majesties Royal Priviledge The Second Volume is already in the Press and the Third and Fourth preparing for it those that expect any advantage by the Proposals made concerning this Work must send in there Subscriptions by the 10th of next March or otherwise 't will he to late Proposals are to be had of the Undertaker John Dunton and of most Booksellers in London and the Country Bishop Barlow's Remains Containing near an hundred distinct Subjects Theological Philosophical Historical c. in Letters to several persons of Honour and Quality To which is added the Resolution of many abstruce points As also directions to a Young Divine for his Study of Divinity and Choice of his Library Published from his Lordships Original Papers The Orders of the Helvetian Church c. Translated into English by John Conrad Werndly Minister of Wrasbury and recommended to the Publick by Six Reverend Bishops The Tragedies of Sin by Stephen Jay late Rector of Chinner Casuistical Morning Exercises the 4th Volume by several Ministers in and about London Heads of agreement assented to by the United Ministers The Life of the Reverend Mr Brand by D. Samuel Annesley Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery by Timothy Rogers M. A. The Life and Death of Mr. Eliot the First Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America the 3d Edition An earnest Call to Family Reformation Price 6 d. or 50 of them for 10 s. to those Gentlemen that bye them to Disperse A Narrative of the extraordinary Cure of Mrs. Savages crocked Hand Published by consent of her Husband and attested by him and several other credible Witnesses Funeral Discourses in several Texts by John Shower Books in the Press and designed for it printed for John Dunton THE Lord Faulklands Works Secretary of State to King Charles I. Mr. Will. Leiburns new Mathematical Tracts in Follo A continuation of Morning Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience the Second Edition A Discourse of the Trinity by John Mauduit Minister at Tooring