WHEREAS I lately Recommended to your Care the strict Execution of the Laws for the due Observation of the LORD's-DAY ; Wherein , if You and the rest of my Brethren the Aldermen shall do your parts within your respective Wards , I question not but it will have the desired effect , and prevent ( at least ) the open Profanation of that Day , I therefore again press you to employ your Care in that particular . But because there are also Notoriously in practice within this City other great Vices and Disorders , very dishonourable to Almighty GOD , and scandalous to the Cities Government , ( such as Drunkenness , Common Swearing and Cursing , Tipling and Gaming ; ) I have thought fit , by the Advice of my Brethren the Aldermen , to recommend to you likewise the suppressing of those Enormities ( as far as in You lies ) within Your Ward . And in regard there is grown to much in use a most Dissolute and Infamous Practice , for Men and Women in the Evening to wander about the Streets and Impudently sollicit others to Wickedness ; Your Care is earnestly desired , That the several Constables of Your Ward may frequently in the Evening Walk the Streets within their Precincts , and be Industrious to prevent that Lewd and Shameful Practice , and Apprehend all Persons they shall observe to Misbehave themselves in that kind , or shall have just cause to suspect , and bring them before Me or some other Justice of the Peace , to be sent to Bridewell , bound to the Good Behaviour , or otherwise dealt with according to Law .

And for the other Misdemeanors before-mentioned , That the Constables and other Officers may the better understand their Duties , and the Penalties by Law appointed to be inflicted on Offenders may be the better known , I have caused a short Abstract to be made thereof out of the Laws , and to be here set down ; That is to say .

Drunkenness . Every Person that shall be Drunk , and thereof Convicted by View of a Justice of Peace , or one Witnesses Oath , or the parties Confession , shall forfeit Five Shillings , to be paid within a Week to the Churchwardens of the Parish for the use of the Poor , or else to be levied by Distress , by Warrant from a Justice of Peace ; If the party be not able , He is to be committed to the Stocks for six Hours : And for the second Offence , He 's to be bound to the Good Behaviour . Every Constable or other , neglecting his Duty , in correcting the Offender or levying the Penalty , to forfeit Ten Shillings .

Swearing and Cursing . The Person guilty thereof in the hearing of a Justice of Peace , or proved by Two Witnesses or the parties Confession , shall for every Offence pay Twelve Pence to the Poor , to be levied by Distress , as before . For want of Distress , the Offender ( if above 12 Years old ) to sit in the Stocks Three Hours ; If under Twelve , to be Whipped by Warrant of the Justice .

Tipling . No Person is to continue Tipling in any Tavern or other Victualling-House ( other than Labouring and Handicraftsmen upon the usual Working-days for one hour at Dinner-time , and unless for urgent occasions to be allowed by two Justices of the Peace ) on pain of Forfeiting Three Shillings Four Pence , and Ten Shillings by the Victualler or Housekeeper , that shall permit such Tipling in his House : The party being convicted thereof by View of a Justice of Peace or One Witnesses Oath , or the parties own Confession ; the same to be levied by Distress , by a Constable or the Churchwardens of the Parish where the Offence is committed , and to go to the Poor of the said Parish .

Gaming . All Persons keeping Common Gaming-Houses and Gamesters commonly resorting thereunto , are to find Sureties or be committed .

For the suppressing of all which Disorders and Punishment of the Offenders , You are strictly to Injoyn all the Constables and Churchwardens within your Ward , That they carefully and constantly perform their Duties therein : And that You often Remind them thereof ; and such as you shall find Remiss , that You take Care they may undergo the Penalties to be inflicted in that behalf . Hereof fail not , as You tender the Weal and Prosperity of this City .