found which will be effectual unless proper Rewards be
given to those who exert themselves in this service, for it
is not to be expected that the Constables or others will hazard
their Lives and the Ruin of their families in apprehending
these desperate Fellows without being Secure of a Reward in
some Degree proportionable to the hazard they run,
especially when Offenders are now frequently refined or
attempted to be so, and which is now so common that it
Seems more particularly to deserve the Consideration of the
Legislature.

But as there may be many other Methods taken (besides these
Rewards) which we conceive will have a Natural Tendency to
prevent these Disorders, and the Increase of these Malefactors, Wee
think it our Duty to propose and recommend the following Particulars
which are founded on the Observations we have made as well before
as in the Course of our present Enquires; That all these Disorders
proceed in a great Degree from the Gaming Houses, Night Houses,
Fairs, Wells & Gardens which have of late grown so numerous
in and about this Town.

That proper Rewards be given to chose who apprehend any
Street Robbers part to be paid on their Committment by Order of
the Committing Justices, and other part on their Conviction, and then
to be paid in open Court immediately after Conviction without any
Fee or other Deductions as the Judge who tries the Offender shall
direct. That these Rewards be extended to all Highwaymen and
Robbers within five Miles of London.

It is further proposed that Gaming Houses be supprest and
particularly that kept by one who calls her self the Lady Mordington
in or near Covent Garden where many Radesmen Apprentices and
others have been ruined and some of them probably made desperate
by Necessity & Want, have turned Felons & Street Robbers.

That the Publick Wells & Gardens as well as the Fairs which have
of late been set up about this Town, where the inferiour sort of
People Spend< no role > their Time & Money and Contract the Habits of Vice & Idleness
which generally end in greater Crimes, ought to be entirely supprest.

That the Excessive Use of Spiritous Liquors and the equally
Excessive Number of those places which are commonly called
Gin shops, are another Cause of these Disorders, and therefore