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<p n="696">to the next General or Quarter Sessions of the peace duplicates of the passes<lb></lb>
and Examinations of the Vagabonds so passed in order that if such persons<lb></lb>
should return and be found committing the like offence they may abide<lb></lb>
the Sentence of the Court that of imprisonment for a term<del>time</del>
not exceeding <lb></lb>
two years and the being publickly whipped at such times and places<lb></lb>
as the Court shall direct.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
And the said Magistrates do also<lb></lb>
exhort to require of the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50659_occ232">Constables Head boroughs</rs>
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and Beadles to make a<lb></lb>
return to them of all Bawdy-Houses and Gaming-Houses in their<lb></lb>
respective Parishes in order that such Houses may be suppressed<lb></lb>
and the Keepers of them brought to condign punishment<lb></lb>
And Whereas public Streets and Highways within this county<del>she Streets of this Metropolis</del>
are at this time<del> <obscured></obscured>
ingly have been most in fa-<lb></lb>
mously infested</del>
so pestered by common Prostitutes who by the same which<del>where audacity<lb></lb>
hath risen to such a height that it is become in a degree unsafe for the<lb></lb>
modest and decent part of this Majesty's Subjects to pass and repass the<lb></lb>
publick Streets upon their lawful occasions from the close of evening<lb></lb>
untill past Midnight and Whereas the snares these abandoned</del>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
lay for unwary Youth are often the<del>sure</del>
Means of their destruction<lb></lb>
is the great increase of publick and private Robbers. In order to remedy<lb></lb>
this<del>dang daring and</del>
growing evil it is recommended to the <lb></lb>
Magistrates in their respective Parishes that they do summon the constable<del>convene be-<lb></lb>
fore them and exhort the Constables</del>
before them and strictly require and<obscured></obscured>
them to exert their utmost deligence<lb></lb>
to put a stop to these<del>this</del>
dangerous and increasing disorders<del>evil</del>
by apprehending<lb></lb>
all such prostitutes as shall be found infesting the Streets, and that<lb></lb>
the said Constables do give special direction to their several Watch<lb></lb>
men to do the same.</p>
<p n="697">And the Magistrates do most earnestly recommend it to the<lb></lb>
Masters of<del>Servants and</del>
Apprentices and Servants in the lower branches of<lb></lb>
Trades and Manufactures not to suffer their Apprentices<lb></lb>
<del>and</del>
or Servants to wander about the publick Streets after the hours<lb></lb>
of labour are over it being notorious that numbers of them<lb></lb>
by connecting themselves with common Strumpets pickpockets<lb></lb>
And persons</p>
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