By the Queen, a proclamation, for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality

All titles

• By the Queen, a proclamation, for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality
• Proclamations. 1702-03-26

People / Organizations

• England and Wales. Sovereign (1702-1707 : Anne). (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, printers to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1702.

Added name

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714.

Publication year

1702

ESTC No.

T19782

Grub Street ID

230758

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1°.

Note

Arms as 134; Steele notation: Careful Imployed of

At end of text: "Given at Our court at Whitehall, the twenty sixth day of March, 1702. In the first year of Our reign."

"No one to play dice or cards on the Lord's Day, all to attend worship. All judges and officers to be strict and punish severely all excessive drinking, blasphemy, lewdness, profanation of the Lord's Day, ...". -- Steele.