SOCIETIES FOR REFORMATION OF MANNERS.. The Eight and Twentieth Account of the Progress made in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Places adjacent, by the Societies for Promoting a Reformation of Manners; by Furthering the Execution of the Laws against Profaneness and Immorality, and other Christian Methods. The said Societies have, in Pursuance of their Design, from the First of December 1721, to the First of December 1722, Prosecuted divers sorts of Offenders, viz. For Lewd and Disorderly Practices - 1223. {Keeping of Bawdy and Disorderly Houses,} 35. {Exercising their Trades of Ordinary Callings on the Lord's Day} 653. {Prophane Swearing and Cursing 201. Drunkenness 8. The said Societies have also been Assisting in Prosecuting Common Gamesters and their Associates } 77...... The Total Number of Persons prosecuted.... for Debauchery and Profaneness, for 32 Years last past are calculated at..... 84720.1722

[London], [s.n., Drop-head title, 8vo, 8pp., disbound. "Multitudes, for 25 Years last past, have been prosecuted, and punished according to Law, for lewd and scandalous Practices. Great Numbers of Bawdy-Houses, have been, and other disorderly Houses, have been suppressed and shut up, and the streets were very much purged from the wretched Tribe of Night-walking Prostitutes, and most detestable Sodomites. Many young Men, taken with lewd Women, have, by their being brought to timely Shame and Punishment, been discouraged and turned (as we have reason to hope) from following such sinful Courses, which often cause them to defraud their Parents, Masters, &c,. and bring themselves to utter Ruine." The ESTC locates copies at the Bodleian Library and New York Public Library.