...Court, when they are to appear with black facings, as already noticed. November 1st. The King signed a Proclamation for the encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for the preventing and punishing Vice, Profaneness and Immorality. Nov. : 3rd. Order for Naval Officers to go into Mourning — Viz....

...England. „ Dec. 6. For putting the Laws in execution against Papists and Non-jurors. 1714-5. [any. 5. For the encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for...and punishing of Vice, Prophaneness, and Immorality. 1716-7. March 2. Prohibiting commerce with Sweden. 1720. July. Order by the Commissioners of Excise...

...Knowledge was formed. It became "the central directorate for the reforming societies." In 1702 Anne issued a "Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for the Preventing and Punishment of Vice, Profaneness and Immorality," to be read in churches four times a year. Sovereigns...

...of instruction for them in the knowledge of the Christian religion. And agreeable to the late royal of a Regiment, very dirty, but no other damage has been done to it. The few things Profaneness and Immorality; that by no means, under any pretence whatsoever, either for themselves...

...through Victoria, of issuing within the first year of accession identically titled royal proclamations "for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for...Punishing of Vice, Prophaneness, and Immorality." See Robert Steele, éd., A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns and...

...a group growing in size and influence by the end of the eighteenth century. In 1787 the king issued a proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue and for the prevention and punishment of vice, profaneness, and immorality. Even more novel, he practiced what...

...the vices of the age and calling for a recovery of piety. Anne issued at least three proclamations "for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for...and Punishing of Vice, Prophaneness, and Immorality" and received her subjects' praise for them in New England, even after her concessions to the Tories...

..."all good Christians" to lay information against offenders. On the accession of Queen Anne in 1702, a Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for the PrevUUtHg and Punishing of Vice, Prophaneness and Immorality™ was issued, and further Proclamations...

...marked 'No. 9') C/2/9/l/l/8/9 Jul. l72l-Aug. l742 Includes: — (pasted inside front cover) printed proclamation 'for the encouragement of piety and virtue,...punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality', l7l4 (l vol., 346 pp., 4l pp. blank; front cover marked 'No. l0') C/2/9/ l/ l/8/l0 Jan. l743-Mar. l776...

...ignored. Wilberforce persuaded the king to reissue one such proclamation, bearing the ungainly name "Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for the Preventing of Vice Profaneness and Immorality." This time, Wilberforce decided to accompany the proclamation with...