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But by above fourscore other Inferior Trades as appear by the
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Constables Returns; particularly by all Chandlers many Weaver
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Severall Tobacconists,
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Shoemakers
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Carpenters
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, Barbers Taylors
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Dyers Labourers and others, there being in the hamlet of
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Bethnal Green
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upwards of Ninety Weavers who sell this
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Liquor; by which Means, this Temptation great as it
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is nor become, is allways near at Hand, And it is searce
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possible for persons in Low Life to go any where, or to
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be any where without being drawn in to taste, and by
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degrees to like and approve of this pernicious Liquor
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Your Commee after having us'd the most proper Method
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which Occurr'd to them, in Order to know the Number of,
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those Houses, proceeded to Enquire according to your Directions
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into the Mischiefs arising from thence, and from the
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Immoderate use of these Liquors & more Especially of
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Geneva: And these to their great Concern appear to be
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of the highest Nature, and most lasting Consequences
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affecting not only particular persons and Families, But
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also the Trade of the Nation & the publick Welfare,
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With Respect to particular persons it deprives them
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of their Money Time Health and Understanding,
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Weakens and destroys their naturall strength and Consti-
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-tutions and thereby kenders them useless to themselves as well
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as to the Community: And when their Spirits are raised by
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drinking to Excess, they are often carried to a Degree of
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extrageous passion, And become bold & daring in Committing
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Robberies and other offences for an Immediate Livelyhood.
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Further They who Indulge themselves in this
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foernicious Custom are thereby rendred incapable of hard
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Labour as well as indisposed to it; their health is ruin'd
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And their Lives by degrees Destroyed; Besides the Fatall
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Effects it has on their Morals & Religion, being generally
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so Stupifyed, that it is difficult to find time to give any
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advice to Such persons, or if a proper time is ever found
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the good Effects or Impressions of what may have been said
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is presently Effac'd & washed away by a Dram or two of
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this pernicious Liquor.
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With Regard to the Female Sex we find the Contagion has
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Spread even among them, And that to a Degree hardly possible
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to be Conceived. Unhappy Mothers habituate themselves to
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these distill'd Liquors, whose Children are born weakly & Sickly
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and often look Shrived & old, as the they had Numbered many
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Years; Others again daily give it to their Children whilst young
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and learn them even before they can go to taste & approve
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of this Certain great Destroyer; And with Respect to the
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Women themselves, it has this further ill Effect, that by
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Inflaming their flood and stupifying their Senses they
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Expose themselves an Easy prey to the attacks of vicious men.
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