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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67009	An account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom with a persuasive to persons of all ranks, to be zealous and diligent in promoting the execution of the laws agaist prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting a national reformation / published with the approbation of a considerable number of the lords spiritual and temporal.	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1699 (1699)	Wing W3512; ESTC R31843	95,899	198

one Witness     This Act extends not to dressing of Meat in Cooks-Shops Inns or Victualling-Houses for such as otherwise cannot be provided nor to Hackney Coaches that are Licensed       Every Person must be Impeached upon this Act within Ten Days after the Offence Drunkenness     A Crime from which the Ancient Britains were free therefore the Laws against it are new Co. 3 Instit fol. 200 201. 4 Jac. c. 5. 21 Jac. c. 7. The Offender for the first to pay Five Shillings to the Church-Wardens where c. within one Week after Conviction or else to be Levied by Warrant c. by Distress and Sale and for want of Distress to sit in the Stocks six Hours If any be Convicted for being Drunk by One Witness View or Confession and the Party confessing a good Witness against another Offending at the same time     If any Ale House-Keeper be Convicted of Drunkenness he is disabled for Three Years to keep any Ale-House 7 Jac. c. 10. 21 Jac. c. 7. For the second Offence must be bound in Ten Pounds with Two Sureties to the good Behaviour and for want of Sureties to be sent to Gaol This Conviction of Drunkenness must be within Six Months after the Offence committed   If the Constable levy not the Forfeitures he Forfeits Ten Shillings to the Poor ut supra Inn-Keepers Ale-House-Keepers or Victuallers that suffer any of the same Parish to continue Tipling in their Houses 1 Jac. c. 9. 21 Jac. c. 7. Ten Shillings to be Levied by Distress and Sale after six days and for want of Distress to be committed till Payment and Disabled for 3 Years from keeping any Ale-House c. One Witness View or Confession and the Party confessing a good Witness against another Offending at the same time   If the Constable or Church-Warden do not Levy the Penalty or shall not certifie the want of Distress within Twenty Days he Forfeits Forty Shillings to be levied by Distress and Sale ut supra If any Inn-Keeper Ale-House-Keeper Victualler or Taverner suffer any Person wheresoever his Habitation be to continue Tipling in his House 1 Jac. cap. 9. 21 Jac. C. 7. 1 Car. cap. 4. Ten Shillings to be Levied by Distress and for want of Satisfaction in six days to be sold restoring the Overplus and for want of Distress to be committed till Payment Two Witnesses or View     Townsmen or others which shall remain Tipling in any Inn Ale-House or Victualling-House One Witness View or Confession ut supra 4 Jac. cap. 5. 21 Jac. c. 7. Three Shillings and Four Pence to be Levied by Distress after one Weeks Neglect of Payment or to sit in the Stocks four Hours Constables shall be charged on their Oaths to present Offences committed against these Acts. 1 Car. cap. 4. 21 Jac. c. 7. Dalt cap. 7. The Constable for his Neglect Forfeits Ten Shillings ut supra These Statutes do Prohibit all Quaffing and Drinking of Healths such Houses being solely appointed for the Accommodation of Travellers and for the Relief of the Poor   Every such Tave●ner which shall suffer any Person whatsoever to Tiple in his House contrary to the said Statutes shall be adjudged within the Statute 1 Jac. Cap. 9. Swearing Cursing     If any Person shall Prophanely Swear or Curse in the Hearing of a Justice of Peace Mayor c. or be Convicted of such Swearing by One Witness or Confession of the Party 21 Jac. c. 20 3 Car. c. 4. 17 Car. c. 4. 6 7 Guliel Cap. 11. He shall fori●●t for every such Offence to the Use of the Poor the respective Sums following every Servant Day-Labourer common Soldier and common S●● man One Shilling every other Person Two Shillings If any Person after Conviction shall ●●end a Second time such Person shall pay Double and if a Third time Trebble the Sum respectively to be paid for the first Offence Every Justice Head-Officer c. may Command the Constables c. 〈◊〉 Levy the same by Distress And for 〈◊〉 of Dis●r●ss the Offender being above the Age of Sixteen Years shall be for in the Stocks for every single Offence one Hour for any Number at one and the same time two hours If under sixteen Years old and shall not pay the sai● Twelve pence he shall o● whipp'd by the Constable by Warrant of the ●●●●●ce Every Offence against this Act must be proved within Ten Days after the Offence Committed     Every Justice shall Register c. and certifie to the next Quarter-Sessions of Peace all Convictions made before him upon this Act and the time of making thereof and for what Offence   or by the Parent Guardian or Master in the Presence of the Constable Every Justice or chief Magistrate wilfully omitting the Performing of his Duty shall forfeit Five Pounds to be recovered by Action The Act of the Sixth and Seventh of King WILLIAM to be Read four times in the Year in all Churches and Chappels under the pain of Twenty Shillings for Neglect thereof General Issue c. Treble Costs c. None shall in any Stage-Play Shew May game Interlude or Pageant Jestingly or Prophanely speak or use the Holy Name of God Christ Jesus the Holy Ghost or Trinity 3 Jac. C. 21. On pain of Ten Pounds to be divided between the King and the Prosecutor to be recovered by Action c. Blasphemy     If any Person having been Educated in or at any time having made Profession of the Christian Religion within this Realm shall by Writing Printing Teaching or advised Speaking deny any one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God or shall assert or maintain there are more Gods than One or shall deny the Christian Religion to be true or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority and shall upon Indictment or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster or at the Assizes be thereof Lawfully Convicted by the Oath of Two or more credible Witnesses 9 10. Gulielm 3. For the first Offence shall be adjudged incapable and disabled in Law to all Intents and Purposes to have or injoy any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any Part in them or any Profit or Advantage appertaining to them and if at the Time of Conviction Possest c. such Office Place or Imployment shall be void Note This Statute punishes not the Error but the Impudence of the Offender   On the second Conviction shall be disabled to Sue Prosecute Plead or use any Action or Information in any Court of Law or Equity or to be a Guardian or an Executor or Administrator or capable of any Legacy or Deed of Gift or of any Office Civil or Military or Benefice Ecclesiastical and shall suffer three Years Imprisonment without Bail from the Time of the Conviction     The Information to a Justice of Peace to be within four Days for Words and the Prosecution

Sieges and other Distresses from their Enemies were more concerned for their Images and Altars than for their own Houses or private Affairs do not condemn them Let our Learned Rabbies the great Disputers of the World and all that make a Profession of Religion but give little better account of it than by expressing a fierce and uncharitable Heat against those that differ from them in some things relating to Religion but not essential to it and wherein all Men equally wise and good have I doubt never yet been fully agreed think seriously with themselves whether they might not employ some share at least of their Parts and Zeal to much better purpose in furthering the Reformation of Mens Lives and of the Manners of the Nation by the Suppressing of Prophaneness and Vice than by raising or keeping up with an unchristian Temper to the manifest Injury of the Christian Religion which is an Institution of Love dangerous or unnecessary Controversies or Divisions and making of Proselytes to their New Opinions or Party all Religions being I think agreed that bad Men are a Scandal to the best Religion and that they cannot if they continue so be saved in any and consequently that the being instrumental in the bringing over of a few Souls to the sincere Practice of Piety and Virtue by any Christian Methods which those I am treating of will I hope be allowed to be is of greater Service to the Christian Religion and the World than the gaining of Hundreds that are vicious to any particular Church or Party But can Men of Conscience satisfy themselves with complaining of the Iniquities of the Age and wishing for Reformation with giving only some good Words to these Proceedings or even praying for God's Blessing upon them without doing as they have Opportunity what is necessary to promote them when as it hath been said we have the Laws of GOD of the Nation and as we have reason to hope the Government on our side and moreover so many Examples and so great Success to incourage us and have now generally speaking not much more to fear than Calumnies and hard Words and most of those 't is to be hoped from the Enemies of God and Goodness which the best of Men and the best Designs in all Ages have ever met with and which in such a Case it is our true Glory to suffer No surely this is a Time as I shall endeavour to make appear for all good Men to join their Hearts and Hands their Interest and Authority in this so Necessary so Great and so Glorious a Work Having now laid before the Reader a short Scheme of this Vndertaking which was begun with great Opposition in a Time that was very discouraging to such an Enterprize and with such other circumstances of Disadvantage as new things be they never so wise and good especially Attempts of this kind generally meet with and yet hath been advanced to such a considerable degree from so contemptible a Beginning as it must appear to have had to the Wise and the Wary among us who do not duly consider that there is a GOD that rules in the Kingdoms of Men and who as the Prophet expresses it giveth Isa 40. 29. Power to the faint and to them that have no Might encreaseth Strength My next Business is to enquire whether there are any Orders of Men among us who are under more particular Obligations to be Zealous and diligent in Promoting a publick Reformation of Manners And in the first place I humbly ask leave to lay this Matter before the most Reverend Order of the Clergy beseeching them with all that due Respect which all good Men ought to have to Their High and Holy Function to consider if what is endeavoured to be proved to be the Common Duty of all Men and the Special Obligation of Kings Governours and Magistrates be indeed so it is not the particular Province of those who have entred into the Places of Overseers and Watchmen Act. 20. 28. Ezek. 3. 17. 18 20. and of whom the Blood of those that die in their Sins if they knowingly suffer them to sleep in them will be required to teach and inculcate these Duties as well as others And if any of their Body after this matter is plainly laid before them and they are convinced 't is their Duty to be diligent in the furthering it wilfully neglect to excite all sorts of People especially those belonging to their Charge of what Rank or Quality soever to do their Duty likewise in promoting in their respective Stations the Execution of the Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery they can give a good Account of their Conduct to those of their particular Charge who have no concern to discharge their Duty herein only for want of their being admonished of it and are not Partakers in some degree in the Common Guilt of the Nation which as our Neglect of our Duty in this particular Instance of not Promoting a Reformation will encrease so it may be a means notwithstanding our present respite from Destruction to draw down God's Judgments upon the Kingdom if we continue to make no better use of the Peace we have with our Neighbours than to fight with our crying Enormities against our God which as I think few Nations if any have had in these last Ages greater Reason to dread so I suppose all will grant that none seem to have greater reason to use all proper means to prevent than those who expect to give Account not only for their own Sins but for the Sins of so many others besides if they wilfully suffer them to perish in them by their refusing to use the necessary means of preventing their living and dying in them I shall not after I have humbly represented this Affair to this Sacred Order think sit to enquire whether there hath been any Neglect on the part of their Body or any one Member of it in a matter wherein Religion is so highly concerned I ask leave rather to say That I am assured upon unquestionable Information that most of the Right Rever●●d the Bishops have expressed their Approbation of the Societies of Reformation I have given an Account of that I have never heard of the Name of any one of these Reverend Persons that hath not done it upon an humble Application made to them for their Countenance and Encouragement of them and that divers of them to my own certain Knowledge have promoted them and continue to do it as a considerable Number of the Clergy in and about this City as well as in other parts of the Kingdom have done likewise some of them by Preaching and frequently meeting to consult one another upon this Occasion and others of them by giving Informations themselves to the Magistrates against Prophane Persons among whom the generous and remarkable Assistance that was given in this Affair by the two late Eminent Divines Dr. Horneck and Dr. Jekell whose Deaths are so much lamented under