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Corporate Author England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
Title By the King, a proclamation. : James R. Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice, ...
Alternative Title Proclamation. James R. Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice
Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice
Publication Info London : printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1688.



Descript 1 sheet ([1] p.).
Note "The greatest severity will be exercised against men of dissolute, debauched, and profane lives. Persons of honour to discountenance such men . Officers to prosecute persons given to excessive drinking, debauchery, profane swearing and cursing, and other dissolute, vicious, and immoral practices." -- Steele.
Title from caption title and first lines of text.
At end of text: Given at Our court at VVhitehall the twenty ninth day of June 1688. In the fourth year of Our reign.
Steele notation: Arms 102a Ordered gion Go-.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Corporate Author England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
Series Early English books online.
Subject Vices -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Swearing -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
Alternative Title Proclamation. James R. Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice
Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice
Descript 1 sheet ([1] p.).
Note "The greatest severity will be exercised against men of dissolute, debauched, and profane lives. Persons of honour to discountenance such men . Officers to prosecute persons given to excessive drinking, debauchery, profane swearing and cursing, and other dissolute, vicious, and immoral practices." -- Steele.
Title from caption title and first lines of text.
At end of text: Given at Our court at VVhitehall the twenty ninth day of June 1688. In the fourth year of Our reign.
Steele notation: Arms 102a Ordered gion Go-.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Corporate Author England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
Series Early English books online.
Subject Vices -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Swearing -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
Alternative Title Proclamation. James R. Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice
Whereas nothing can prove a greater dishonour to a well-ordered government where the Christian faith is professed, than the open and avowed practice of vice

Subject Vices -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Swearing -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Descript 1 sheet ([1] p.).
Note "The greatest severity will be exercised against men of dissolute, debauched, and profane lives. Persons of honour to discountenance such men . Officers to prosecute persons given to excessive drinking, debauchery, profane swearing and cursing, and other dissolute, vicious, and immoral practices." -- Steele.
Title from caption title and first lines of text.
At end of text: Given at Our court at VVhitehall the twenty ninth day of June 1688. In the fourth year of Our reign.
Steele notation: Arms 102a Ordered gion Go-.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Alt author James II, King of England, 1633-1701.

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