By the major for as much as the gathering together of persons old and young ... on the Lord's Day ... when they should be exercised publicly or privately in the duties of religion ... City of London (England). This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49056 of text R39654 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2883B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A49056 Wing L2883B ESTC R39654 18460929 ocm 18460929 107738 2240876359

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A49056) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107738) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1638:11) By the major for as much as the gathering together of persons old and young ... on the Lord's Day ... when they should be exercised publicly or privately in the duties of religion ... City of London (England). 1 broadside. Printed by Richard Cotes ..., [London] : 1649. Second part of title taken from first eight lines of text. "Dated at London, the 14th Aprill, 1649." Order for better observance of Lord's Day. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Guildhall, London. eng Sabbath legislation -- England. Great Britain -- Religion -- 17th century. London (England) -- History -- 17th century. A49056 R39654 (Wing L2883B). civilwar no By the major for as much as the gathering together of persons old and young ... on the Lord's Day ... when they should be exercised publicly Corporation of London 1649 1 328 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
By the Major .

FOR as much as the gathering together of persons old and young , upon the Exchange , and into the fields for sports and recreations , into Victualling-houses , and Taverns upon the Lords-day , and Fast-days ; mispending their time there , when they should be exercised publickly or privately in the duties of Religion . And for as much as the setting open of shops , and selling of Wine , Beer , Ale , Flesh , Fish , Fruit , and other victual upon those days , and receiving and entertaining of persons upon those days to drink and tiple , tend very much to the dishonor of God , the encrease and spreading of prophanenesse , the scandall of godly and religious men , and the government of this City . The Right Honorable the Lord Maior therefore doth require all persons of what Nation or quality soever , to forbear to walk or gather together upon the Exchange , or into the fields , for sports and recreations ; or into Victualling-houses , or Taverns , or to set open any shop , or house , for vending or putting to sale any Wine , Ale , Beer , or other victuall or commodity whatsoever , upon the said days , except in case of necessity : And all Parents and Masters of families , to command their children and servants to forbear accordingly : and all Constables and other Officers to search for , and apprehend such persons as transgresse in any of the aforesaid particulars , and to bring them before His Lordship , or some other Iustices of the Peace , to the intent that they may be proceeded against ; according to the laws in those cases provided .

Dated at London , the 14th . Aprill , 1649 .

Printed by Richard Cotes , Printer to the Honorable City of London , 1649.