to the next General or Quarter Sessions of the peace duplicates of the passes
and Examinations of the Vagabonds so passed in order that if such persons
should return and be found committing the like offence they may abide
the Sentence of the Court that of imprisonment for a termtimenot exceeding
two years and the being publickly whipped at such times and places
as the Court shall direct. [mark] And the said Magistrates do also
exhort to require of the said Constables Head boroughs and Beadles to make a
return to them of all Bawdy-Houses and Gaming-Houses in their
respective Parishes in order that such Houses may be suppressed
and the Keepers of them brought to condign punishment
And Whereas public Streets and Highways within this countyshe Streets of this Metropolisare at this time [..] ingly have been most in fa-
mously infestedso pestered by common Prostitutes who by the same whichwhere audacity
hath risen to such a height that it is become in a degree unsafe for the
modest and decent part of this Majesty's Subjects to pass and repass the
publick Streets upon their lawful occasions from the close of evening
untill past Midnight and Whereas the snares these abandoned
[..] lay for unwary Youth are often thesureMeans of their destruction
is the great increase of publick and private Robbers. In order to remedy
thisdang daring andgrowing evil it is recommended to the
Magistrates in their respective Parishes that they do summon the constableconvene be-
fore them and exhort the Constablesbefore them and strictly require and [..] them to exert their utmost deligence
to put a stop to thesethisdangerous and increasing disordersevilby apprehending
all such prostitutes as shall be found infesting the Streets, and that
the said Constables do give special direction to their several Watch
men to do the same.

And the Magistrates do most earnestly recommend it to the
Masters ofServants andApprentices and Servants in the lower branches of
Trades and Manufactures not to suffer their Apprentices
andor Servants to wander about the publick Streets after the hours
of labour are over it being notorious that numbers of them
by connecting themselves with common Strumpets pickpockets
And persons