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In Consequence of this Remedy Trade must Increase with
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the Labours of the poor; our Soldiery will Still be Renowned for their
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Strength and Reall Courage; Servants will be more Obedient, honest,
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and Faithfull, and all Sorts of persons in low Life will become
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more strong & Robust, better Inclind to Industry and Labour, and
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be less Induced to Rob & Commit Murders, and Outrages, now
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too Common even in the publick Streets: In fine our
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Morals will be better Secured, and, we may, with great Reason
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hope once more to see, Religion Sobriety & Industry flourish
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among us.
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Your Committee having thus laid before you the
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Numbers of the Houses and places wherein Geneva and
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other Strong Waters are Sold as, also Some of the many Mischie-
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-vous Effects deriv'd from thence, and Some of the Happy
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Consequences most likely to attend the remedying the
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Mischiefs Complain'd of, Submit to the Consideration and
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Judgment of the Sessions, How farr it is in their power, and
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by what Means to Suppress this great & dangerous Evill; Or
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whether any or what Application to our Superiors may
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be proper, in Order to a more Effectuall Remedy.
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Thomas Lane
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John Milner
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Nicholas Jeffreys
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Jacob Harvey
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John Mercer
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William Booth
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Merry Teshmaker
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of the Justices of
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the peace of Middx
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to the Honble House
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of Cornons agt
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Geneva Shops}
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To the Honble. the Commons of Great Britain in
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Parliament Assembled
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The Humble Petition of his Majesties Justices
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of the peace for the
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in their genll Quarter
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Sessions Assembled
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Humbly Sheweth
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That the drinking of Geneva & other
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Distill'd
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Spirituous Liquors has for some years last
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past greatly encreased, Especially among the people of
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Inferior Rank.
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That the Constant & Excessive use thereof
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as now practiced, hath already destroyed thousands of his
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Majesties Subjects, and renders great Numbers of others
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unfitt for usefull Labour & Service, debauching at the
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same time their Moralls & driving their into all Manner
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of Vice & Wickedness.
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