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Proclamation against Vice and Immorality (2 nd S.
i. 77.) The first proclamation appears to have
been issued about the time of the passing of An
Act for the more effectual suppressing of Blas-
phemy and Profane-ness, 9 & 10 Wm. III., for it is
jriven at the " Court at Kensington, the Four and
Twentieth Day of February, 1697," in the tenth
year of that king's reign. Similar proclamations
were afterwards issued by Queen Anne, on " the
Twenty-sixth Day of March, 1702," in the first
year of her reign ; by George I., on " the 5th of
January, 1714," in the first year of his reign; and
by George III., immediately after his accession.
George II.' s I cannot find at present ; but the
probability is that one was issued by him. The
act, and the three first-mentioned proclamations,
may be found in the Articles, Constitutions,
Canons, &c., printed by order of the archbishop
for the use of the parochial clergy, by Basket, in
1724, and the last in the Gentleman's Magazine
for 1760, p. 617. O. S. (1.)
Sir Edward Minshutt (1 st S. xi. 109, 110.) Sir Edward Minshull, of Stoke Hall, is said here to have had three daughters Mary, Ann, and Elizabeth. If he had not also a daughter Grace,
married to Wortley, this lady must have
been the daughter of one of his younger brothers. Perhaps your correspondents can tell me who she was ? G. STEINMAN STEINMAN.
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