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A56029	Proposals for a national reformation of manners humbly offered to the consideration of our magistrates & clergy : to which is added, I. the instrument for reformation : II. an account of several murders, &c. and particularly a bloody slaughter-house discover'd in Rosemary-lane ... : as also the black roll, containing the names and crimes of several hundreds persons, who have been prosecuted by the society, for whoring, drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, &c. / published by the Society for Reformation.	Societies for the Reformation of Manners.	1694 (1694)	Wing P3725; ESTC R4427	27,307	37

denounce that Woe against All who shall attempt to obstruct this National Reformation in most humble manner thus presented to the Higher Powers our Supreme Magistrates and Ministers the pious Governours of the Civil and Ecclesiastick State Woe be unto that man by whom this offence shall come It had been better for him that a mill-stone were hung about his neck and that he was cast into the bottom of the sea THE INSTRUMENT FOR Reformation WHEREAS His Majesty in his Letter to the Bishops hath declared his most earnest desire of a General Reformation of the Lives and Manners of all his Subjects And the Queen's Majesty in her Letter to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Middlesex at their Sessions at Hicks's-Hall hath Charged and Required Them to use the most effectual Methods for putting the Laws in Execution against all manner of Profaneness and Wickedness Whereas also both Their Majesties have lately Issued out Their Proclamation against Vitious Debauched and Profane Persons wherein they declare the deep Sense of the Goodness and Mercy of Almighty God by whom Kings Reign in giving so happy Successes to their Endeavours for the Rescuing of these Kingdoms from Popish Tyranny and Superstition c. So also they are not less touched with a Resentment that notwithstanding these great Deliverances Impiety and Vice still abounds in this Kingdom And that the Execution ofmanygood Laws that have been made for the Suppressing and Punishing thereof hath been grosly neglected to the great Dishonour of God and Religion Wherefore they further declare their Princely Resolution to discountenance all manner of Vice and for that purpose they straitly Charge Require and Command all Judges Mayors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace and all other Officers Ecclesiastical and Civil in their respective Stations to Execute the Laws against Blasphemy profane Swearing and Cursing Drunkenness Lewdness Profanation of the Lord's Day or any other dissolute immoral or disorderly Practice as they will answer it to Almighty God and upon pain of their Majesties highest Displeasure And for the more effectual Proceedings herein They direct and command Judges and Justices of the Peace to give strict Charges at the respective Assizes and Sessions for the due Prosecution and Punishment of all Persons that shall presume to offend in any the Kinds aforesaid and also of all Persons that contrary to their Duty shall be remiss or negligent in putting the said Laws in Execution as may be seen more at large in the said Royal Proclamation given at their Majesties Court at White-Hall Jan. 21. 1691 2 in the third Year of their Reign In pursuance hereof many excellent Orders have been given out particularly by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London The Bench of Justices at their General Quarter-Sessions held forthe County of Middlesex and also by the Justices at their General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Surry Wherein they Charge and Command all Counstables Headboroughs Church-wardens c. to use their utmost Endeavours to bring all Offenders against the Laws aforesaid to condign Punishment severely meancing their Negligence but promising to their Diligence herein all Encouragement Yet notwithstanding all this Vice and Wickedness abound in every place Lord's Days are still profaned Drunkenness and Lewdness escape unpunished our Ears in most Companies are filled with Imprecasions of Damnation the Corners of our Streets every where echo the horrible Sounds of Oaths Curses and blasphemous Execrations The blame of all this lies undoubtedly for the most part at the doors of Inferiour Officers Authority both Supream and Subordinate having sufficiently acquitted it self and worthily acted its part in giving forth strict Commands as aforesaid But these though they are intrusted to be the only immediate Executors of the Laws have neglected to put them in Execution Now as Execution is the life of Laws so their Non-execution being equivalent to an actual Repeal renders them useless or as if they never had a Being Hence it is that Wickedness grows rampant and Profaneness rides triumphant trampling upon all the Zeal and Piety of Virtuous Governours and Legislators making all their Religious Intentions and Resolutions void and of none effect How much the said Officers are concerned in this Guilt and which of them are most faulty we may easily see if we divide them into two Ranks and take a view first of those that will not do their Duties being conscious of their own wicked Inclinations and Actions they will not punish that Impiety in others which they allow of in themselves There are other Officers that are more conscientious Of these some are Tradesmen which willingly would but cannot spare time to give that Attendance that is requisite for the full discharge of their Offices without a manifest neglect of their Shops Trades and other Business And thus the best Laws for punishing and suppressing of Vice and Wickedness that are already or for the future can be made and enforced though by a thousand Proclamations and subordinate Orders will all prove ineffectual unless put in Execution by Under-Officers Of these as afore-mentioned some are profane and will not others would and something they do towards it but have not time to do to the full of what is required of them To remedy these great Inconveniencies and to answer the Great and Noble Ends of our Governours in making good Laws and pressing their Execution the Expedient as drawn up in the following Form is most humbly proposed We who are Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster and Parishes adjacent both in the Counties of Middlesex and Surry having an Eye to the Honour of God and the King and the publick Benefit of the Nation And being encouraged by the late happy Success that hath attended the industrious Endeavours of the Tower-Hamlets whereby according to a Method mentioned in their printed Paper or Instrument That declaring honest and joynt design for the general suppressing of Bawdy-houses c. they have with more than ordinary Diligence and great expence of their Time and Money in the space of two or three Years as lately Affidavit hath been made before the Bench of Justices at Hicks's Hall not only brought to due Punishment according to Law seven or eight hundred Criminals but also generally routed those naughty Houses which formerly abounded amongst them And being fluenced by that good old Principle or Axiom Bonum quo communius eo melius resolve to use our hearty Endeavours that so good a Work may no longer be consined within such narrow Limits but be farther promoted for more general Advantage WHEREFORE we agree upon our own Costs and Charges to imploy and maintain a competent Number of such fitting Persons as we shall choose to assist the several Constable and other Officers in the Wards of the said City of London and in other of the said adjacent Parishes in putting in Execution those good Laws aforesaid viz. by observing and taking notice of all those that

PROPOSALS FOR A National Reformation OF MANNERS Humbly offered to the Consideration of our MAGISTRATES CLERGY To which is added I. The Instrument for Reformation II. An Account of several Murders c. and particularly A Bloody Slaughter-house discover'd in Rosemary-lane by some of the Society for Reformation as the same hath been Sworn before two of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace AS ALSO The Black Roll. CONTAINING The Names and Crimes of several hundreds Persons who have been prosecuted by the Society for Whoring Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking c. Published by the Society for Reformation LICENSED Feb. 12th 1693 ● D. POPLAR LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry MDCXCIV THE PREFACE ALL men agree That Atheism and Profaneness never got such an high Ascendant as at this day A thick gloominess hath overspread our Horizon and our Light looks like the Evening of the World Insomuch that all those great Works and Wonders which God hath wrought out for us appear but like Walking-Trees although the eyes of the Blind and the Ears of the Deaf have been miraculously opend thereby and that the Lame hath been made to Arise and Walk Yet for all this Impiety abounds even after our angry God hath shaken the foundation of the Earth and that he hath hereby so loudly called on the Christian World to this Nation and City also in a more especial manner to awake from deep Slumber and to amend our ways by an Universal Reformation of our Lives and Manners and not to imagine Jamaica and Sicily were greater sinners than others for unless we repent we shall all likewise perish These sad considerations have compelled us to appear in the publick face of so many discouragements on every hand We believe no unprejudiced person which considers aright will mistake our end herein or suggest what never entred into our thoughts For we are not so opinionated of our selves as presumptuously and arrogently to Dictate to our Honourable Magistrates and Clergy in the Administration of the Civil and Ecclesiastick Government which God hath entrusted unto their consciencious Care and Managment by those methods which their mature Judgment and Wisdom can Dirct But our intention in this publick appearance is in the first place to represent some of those Fountain-heads which are the Scourse or Original more especially of those most palpable Evils which have infected all places and corncers of the Land and City with an Universal Contagion That from this Prospect many Mourners may be raised up in our Jerusalem to wrestle with the Almighty to remove those Tremendous Judgments hanging over our heads and wherein every private Christian may become a publick Blessing to the Nation In the next place we only Propose in all becoming humility some such Ways or Methods for suppressing the daily growth of Wickedness as may yet more and more excite and new-animate our Honourable MAGISTRATES and CLERGY to find out some better expedient for Universal Reformation of Manners However our hearty attempts unto the aforesaid End in pursuance of those several Declarations and Proclamations of the KING and QVEEN's Most Ecclent Majesty commanding and encouraging all Dutyful and Loyal Subjects thereunto according to their several Capacities hath met with a wonderful Blessing and Success from small beginnings even beyond many persons expectations by which it appear God hath not despised the day of small things FOR who would have imagined that four or five persons only who at first began this Work in the sight and opposition of so many professed adversaries would have met with so early encouragement as namely from the Right Reverend BISHOPS my Lord Lucas the Honourable Bench of Justices at Hicks ' s-Hall Afterwards from the Right Honourable Lord MAYOR and Court of Aldermen The honourable Sheriffs and Recorder and from several other Persons of Eminent Quality for whose great Zeal and Piety herein all good mens thanks are due Wherefore that Posterity may rise up and Bless Their Memory when they lye down in the Dust the last Act of Justice and Gratitude we can shew to perpetuate their Name is to present the World with these humble Proposals for an Universal Reformation of Manners Annexing thereunto this strange Relation of barbarous Murders and particularly of a bloody SLAUGHTER-HOUSE Affixing also our BLACK-ROLL of the Names and Crimes of Notorious Offenders taken out of the Records of several of the Courts c. which this Society hath detected and brought to condigne Punishment Who when we were but an Embryo yet then began to Quicken by that Benigne Aspect which these our most Honourable PATRONS were pleased to cast upon us This alone if there had been no other Arguments might have given us sufficient encouragement to make an humble Dedication of these Leaves unto THEM but that we considered the implacable Adversaries unto Reformation would be labouring to misrepresent both the Subject-matter and our End To conculde let all good Christians pray that God alone may have the Honour and Glory of his own Work unto whom be all Praises Thanksgivings Worship and Obedience throughout all his Dominions World without end Amen THE NECESSITY Of a Present National Reformation SHall the Lyon roar and the beasts of the Forest not tremble Shall God Shake this and other Cities and Nations of Europe all at once and shall our obdurate hearts remain unbroken and unshaken after all this Doth not the late Tremendous EARTH-QUAKE in several parts of England and London which had such influence on the English Court beyond the Seas c. speak a loud unto this Nation and these Kingdoms and to this City especially since it falls out in so few Weeks after that great Catastrophe in Jamaica As on the one hand these things tell us that God's anger is not yet turned away and that his Arm is stretched out still so on the other hand this gentle warning after many disregarded Mercies and Judgments seems as if God was speaking to Vs as of old unto Ephraim How shall I give thee up O Ephraim how shall I make thee as Admah and as Zeboim c. The Church of the Jews sinned not against such alluring Motives to Love and Obedience as we have done It 's true they sinned greatly in the Wilderness and afterwards also when they were in their Promised Land though followed with miraculous mercies and deliverances so long grieving his Spirit untill God did greatly abhor his own Inheritance and forsook Shilo his Ark which he had placed among them Ps 87. And afterward gave the beloved of his soul into the hands of her Enemies then when he suffered the Babylonians or Chaldeans to burn Jerusalem and his Temple They sinned still more and more after them return from Captivity and that the Temple was rebuilt their spirits being so inveterately incensed against one another that one Church or Temple-worship at Jerusalem was not sufficient to preserve Union and Communion Afterwards in Christs time his degenerated Church was arrived

for the time to come shall impudently dare in Rebellion against the Laws of God and Man to Swear and Curse to profane the Lord's day or be guilty of the loathsom Sin of Drunkenness also by searching out the lurking Holes of Bawds Whores and other filthy Miscreants in order to their Conviction and Punishment according to Law We promise to take care what in us lies that none shall be connived at or Favour or Affection and none prosecuted out of Malice or Hatred And to the end that nothing may be done illegally we will have frequent Recourse to those that are Learned in the Law in order to act by their advice Counsel and Direction In our contending against those Abominations that threaten the Destruction of the whole Kingdom An angry Look of God not long since made the Earth Tremble And may we not fear without Reformation the next Look may be to our Ruine and Destruction What are we better than the Cities of Naples Smyrna Inspruck Sicily and Jamaica who lately thus perished one great Reason why Wickedness so abounds in this Nation is because no more private Hands are engaged against it all is left to have or six Officers in a Parish though it may be one half if not two thirds of them for the generality instead of being Suppressers are rather Supporters and Encouragers of it either by neglect of Duty or by giving bad Example To conclude what dreadful Judgments may we not fear if we continue unreformed But if this blessed Work of Reformation as we have great hopes prospers what Blessings may we not expect The Reformation we are endeavouring in this great City and Suburbs by the continuance of God's Blessing and of our Magistrates favourable Countenance effectually to accomplish we hope will influence the whole Nation with Scotland and Ireland in such wise that we all with one Heart one Mind one Soul might fear God honour the King and live in Love Unity Peace and Concord one with another Amen and Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A true Relation of several Barbarous Villanies and Murders detected in and about London by some Constables and other Officers assisted by some of the Society for Reformation Whereunto is Added an Account of a Bloody SLAUGHTER-HOUSE in Rosemary Lane near East-Smithfield Discovered by A. M. one of the Constables belonging to the Society The whole having been Sworn before Two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for London and Middlesex A Long Harangue is not here intended but only a Short yet 〈◊〉 and true Narrative of such Matters of Fact c. as may not on●● for up All Persons of common Morality and Sobriety to Abominate the frightful Appearance of VICE dress'd up in the black Spo●s of Loosness and Debaucherie but likewise to Mourn and Lament by reason of that Universal Contagion of Sin and Wickedness which hath so dangerously Overspread this City and Nation also and Infected so many persons of all Ranks both young and old each Sex also and almost every Place and corner of the Land Hoping that this Relation may have some Influence on all Good Men to Excite their ardent Sighs and Prayers to GOD that he would New-animate our Pious Magistrates and Clergie in a more especial manner to improve their great Interest to Promote and Encourage such a Society or Societies as shall conscienciously regard the Glory and Honour of GOD the safety and preeservation of the Government under which we so happily Live wherein the Publique Good of these Kingdoms doth so eminently consist by their hearty and loyal endeavours to discover all such like Notorious Criminals and to bring them unto condign Punishment It were greatly to be wisht that every of these Monstrous Villains had not thus escaped the Sword of the Magistrate But seeing the Devil hath thus secured several of them from a present Apprehension or Execution as his Hellish Favourites thereby to further them in all such Wickednesses as may make them fully Ripe for a more heavy Condemnation hereafter without Repentance it is not to be doubted but the All-seeing Eye and Hand of the most Just and Righteous God will sooner or later reach them Vnto Whom Vengeance belongs and who will Recompenence it them in his own due time The Account is as follows THe Queen Dowager's Butler was Murdered in Anno 1689. by keeping company with Sarah Hodges living in the Hamlets of Wappen-Stepney at the Sign of the Bird in Hand who maintained a reputed Bawdy-House Several great Evidences were produced in order to her Conviction but all ineffectual A little after it hapned one night that the Neighbours observed the said Sarah Hodges's Maid frequently sent out upon Errands and this till Ten or Eleven a Clock at night The next morning the doors being fast several Neighbours knock'd but no person opening at last they found the door open and searched the low room narrowly but could discover nothing But going up one pair of Stairs into the fore-Chamber a sad and lamentable Spectacle presented it self A Young Woman was found in bed having her Throat Cut On the floor of the same Chamber the Servant-Maid of the House lay with her Throat cut also In the back Chamber of the same floor the Mistriss of the House the aforesaid Sarah Hodges was found in bed with her Throat Cut also and both her Ears slit to take out her gold Ear-rings In this dreadful manner all Three lay waltering in their blood and the House was found rifled Not long after another Woman in Goodmans-fields that kept a reputed Bawdy-House had her Throat cut also by one Selbey who was afterwards Executed near the same House And at the same time another Womans Throat was cut in the said House but not being cut through the Windpipe she recovered and discovered the Murder But who murdered the former Women is not yet known But above all the Relations which have been given the World of matters of this nature although some of them have been very strange and surprising yet this following Account seems to all who have heard thereof most Wonderful and Amazing Giving all of us great ground to conclude that many horrid Murders have been perpetrated from time to time in this place Insomuch that it may not unfitly be called The Strange Discovery of a New and bloody SLAUGHTER-HOUSE Which is as followeth In the year 1692. Mr Anthony Miles one of the Society being then Constable and walking his rounds it hapned that in Rosemany-Lane near East-Smithfield at the House of one Mistriss Smith who was known to entertain Whores and Theives he heard a great Revel rout with many Oaths and Cursings and making a stand to hearken and inform himself he heard several Persons in that House thrusting one another down Stairs who seem'd to him to be naked by the found of their feet One of them suddenly unbolted the door whereupon the said Constable thrust in his Staff to keep it open and entring in with diverse Persons