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At the Court at
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28th Day of April 1721
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Present
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The Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council.
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Cop: of his Maties. Order
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Council touching
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the discovery & Punishmt.
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of Psons guilty of
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fareness, immorality
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debanchery,
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His Majesty having received Information, which gives great Reason to
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Suspect that there have lately been and till are, in and about the Cities
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of London and
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, certain Scandalon's Clubs or Societies of
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Young Persons who meat together, and in the most impious and
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blasphemons Manner, insult the most Sacred Principles of our Holy
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Religion, affront Almighty God himself, and corrupt the Minds and
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Morals of one another; and being resolved to make use of all the
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Authority committed to Him by Almighty God, to Punish Such
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enormous Offenders, and to crush such shocking Impieties before
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they Increase and draw down the Vengeance of God upon this
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Nation: His Majesty has thought fit to command the Lord Chancellour
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and his Lordship is hereby required to call together His Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace of
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, and Strickly to
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enjoyn them, in the most effectuall Manner that they, and every of them
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do make the most diligent and Careful Enquiry and Search for the
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Discovery of any thing of this and the like Sort, tending in any wise
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to the Corruption of the Principles and Mannor's of Men and to lay
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before his Lordship such Discoveries as from time to time may be
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made, to the End that all proper Methods may taken for the alter
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Suppression of all such detestable Practices. His Lordship is
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further directed to urge them to the due Execution of their Office
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in detecting and prosecuting with Vigour all Profaneness, Immorality,
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and Debanchery, as they value the Blessing of Almighty God, as
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they regard the Happiness of their Country, which cannot subsist
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if things Sacred and Virtuous are trampled upon, and as they tender
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His Majesty's Favour. to which they cannot recommend themselves
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more effectually than by shewing the utmost zeal upon so important
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an Occasion; to which End his Lordship is to acquaint them, that as
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his Majesty for himself has nothing more at Heart than to
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regard the Honour of God, so impiously Struck at, & is determined
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to shew all Marks of Displeasure and Discouragement
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to any who may lye ever under the Suspicion of such Practices;
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so he shall always account it the greatest and most substantial
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Service they can do to His Majesty or his Government, to
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exert themselves in discovering any who are guilty of
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such Impieties, that they may be openly Prosecuted and
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punished with the utmost Severity and most publick Ignoming
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which the Laws of the Land can inflict.
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