After this terrible Accusation, we may easily guess what Quarter our _Stews_ met with at the Reformation. But now _Bucer_ has got his Ends; the _Stews_ are destroy’d; those public Nusances are demolish’d; Whoring is attack’d on all hands without Mercy; and what then? Why, truly, by mere Dint of _Reforming_, we have reduced Lewdness to that pass, that hardly one Bachelor in the Kingdom will lie with a Woman, if he is sure that she’s not found; and very few modest Women will suffer a Man to get them with Child, unless he makes a Promise to marry. In short, the Truth is, we are at this present Writing as _bad_ as we can be; and I hope I have fairly shown how we may be _better_. [Illustration] APPENDIX. NUMBER I. _RICHARD RAWLINSON_, L. L. D. and R. S. S. in his Account of _Southwark_,[11] informs us, that next to the _Bear-Garden_ on the Bank-Side was formerly the BORDELLO, or STEWES, so called from several Licensed Houses for the Entertainment of Lewd Persons, in which were Women prepared for all Comers. They were subject to several Laws and Regulations, and their Manner of Life and Privileged Places, received several Confirmations from the Crown. [11] See _Aubrey’s_ Natural History and Antiquities of _Surrey_, _8vo._ Vol. v. p. 221. In 1162, King _Henry_ II, in a _Parliament_ held at _Westminster_, passed an Act, confirming several Ordinances, Statutes, and old Customs observed in that Place, amongst which the following are remarkable: * * * * * That no _Stew-Holder_ or his Wife, should lett or stay any single Woman to go and come freely at all Times when she listed. No _Stewholder_ to keep any Woman to board, but she to board abroad at her Pleasure. To take no more for the Woman’s Chamber than _fourteen_ Pence. Not to keep open his Doors upon the Holy-days. Not to keep any single Woman in his House on the Holy-days, but the _Bailiff_ to see them voided out of the Lordship. No single Woman to be kept against her Will, that would leave her Sin. No _Stew-Holder_ to receive any Woman of Religion, or any Mans Wife. No single Woman to take Money to lie with any Man, except she lye with him all Night, till the Morrow. No Man to be drawn or enticed into any _Stew-House_. The _Constables_, _Bailiffs_, and others, were every Week to search every _Stew-House_. No _Stew-Holder_ to keep any Woman that hath the perillous Infirmity of _Burning_, nor to sell Bread, Ale, Flesh, Fish, Wood, Coal, or any sort of Victuals. * * * * *