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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller

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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.

Name: Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Author: Malcolm, James Peller

Malcolm, James Peller

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century

"And it having been farther represented to his Majesty,
     that such felons and other robbers, and their accomplices,
     are greatly encouraged and harboured by persons who make
     it their business to keep night-houses, which are resorted
     to by great numbers of loose and disorderly people; and
     that the gaming-houses, as also the shops where Geneva and
     other spirits and strong liquors are drank to excess, much
     contribute to the corruption of the morals of those of an
     inferior rank, and to the leading them into these wicked
     courses: His Majesty has commanded me to recommend it, in
     his name, in the strongest manner, to his Majesty's Justices
     of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster, to
     employ their utmost care and vigilance, in the preventing
     and suppressing of these disorders; and that they do, in
     their several parishes or other divisions, hold frequent
     petty Sessions for this purpose, and call before them the
     High Constable, Petty Constables, and other proper officers
     under their direction, and give them the strictest orders
     and warrants, from time to time, as there shall be occasion,
     to search for and apprehend rogues, vagabonds, idle and
     disorderly persons, in order to their being examined and
     dealt with according to the statutes and laws in that behalf;
     and the said Justices are also to proceed according to law,
     as well against all persons harbouring such offenders in
     their houses, as against those that sell Geneva or other
     spirits and strong liquors, who shall suffer tippling in
     their houses or shops, contrary to law; and against such
     as keep common gaming-houses, or practise or encourage
     unlawful gaming. And his Majesty, having very much at heart
     the performance of this service, wherein the honour of his
     government, the preserving of the peace, and the safety of
     his Majesty's subjects are so much concerned, does further
     require the said Justices, in their respective Sessions, to
     draw up in writing, from time to time, an account of their
     proceedings herein, inserting the names of the Justices of
     the Peace attending such meetings, and of the Peace-officers
     whom they shall employ, taking particular notice of the zeal
     and diligence of each of them in the performance of his duty;
     which accounts are to be transmitted from the said several
     Sessions to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of
     State, to be laid before his Majesty; who, being himself
     informed of their behaviour, may bestow marks of his Royal
     bounty upon such of the said officers as shall remarkably
     distinguish themselves by the faithful and diligent execution
     of their office; his Majesty not doubting but the said
     Justices, on their part, will take care to punish with
     rigour, as by law they may, those who shall appear to have

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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller

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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.

Malcolm, James Peller

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century

"And it having been farther represented to his Majesty,
     that such felons and other robbers, and their accomplices,
     are greatly encouraged and harboured by persons who make
     it their business to keep night-houses, which are resorted
     to by great numbers of loose and disorderly people; and
     that the gaming-houses, as also the shops where Geneva and
     other spirits and strong liquors are drank to excess, much
     contribute to the corruption of the morals of those of an
     inferior rank, and to the leading them into these wicked
     courses: His Majesty has commanded me to recommend it, in
     his name, in the strongest manner, to his Majesty's Justices
     of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster, to
     employ their utmost care and vigilance, in the preventing
     and suppressing of these disorders; and that they do, in
     their several parishes or other divisions, hold frequent
     petty Sessions for this purpose, and call before them the
     High Constable, Petty Constables, and other proper officers
     under their direction, and give them the strictest orders
     and warrants, from time to time, as there shall be occasion,
     to search for and apprehend rogues, vagabonds, idle and
     disorderly persons, in order to their being examined and
     dealt with according to the statutes and laws in that behalf;
     and the said Justices are also to proceed according to law,
     as well against all persons harbouring such offenders in
     their houses, as against those that sell Geneva or other
     spirits and strong liquors, who shall suffer tippling in
     their houses or shops, contrary to law; and against such
     as keep common gaming-houses, or practise or encourage
     unlawful gaming. And his Majesty, having very much at heart
     the performance of this service, wherein the honour of his
     government, the preserving of the peace, and the safety of
     his Majesty's subjects are so much concerned, does further
     require the said Justices, in their respective Sessions, to
     draw up in writing, from time to time, an account of their
     proceedings herein, inserting the names of the Justices of
     the Peace attending such meetings, and of the Peace-officers
     whom they shall employ, taking particular notice of the zeal
     and diligence of each of them in the performance of his duty;
     which accounts are to be transmitted from the said several
     Sessions to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of
     State, to be laid before his Majesty; who, being himself
     informed of their behaviour, may bestow marks of his Royal
     bounty upon such of the said officers as shall remarkably
     distinguish themselves by the faithful and diligent execution
     of their office; his Majesty not doubting but the said
     Justices, on their part, will take care to punish with
     rigour, as by law they may, those who shall appear to have

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.

Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.

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