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An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other parts of Europe and America. With some reasons and plain direction for our hearty and vigorous prosecution of this glorious work. In a letter to a friend. To which is added, the special obligations of magistrates, to be diligent in the execution of the penal-laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting of a national reformation.

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An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other parts of Europe and America. With some reasons and plain direction for our hearty and vigorous prosecution of this glorious work. In a letter to a friend. To which is added, the special obligations of magistrates, to be diligent in the execution of the penal-laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting of a national reformation.

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[2] leaves, 63, [1] pages : ports. ; 20 cm

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An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other parts of Europe and America. With some reasons and plain direction for our hearty and vigorous prosecution of this glorious work. In a letter to a friend. To which is added, the special obligations of magistrates, to be diligent in the execution of the penal-laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting of a national reformation. The twelfth edition with considerable additions. London : Printed and sold by J. Downing, 1704.

"Erroneously attributed to W[oodward] and to Defoe". - Gross. Select bibliography of British history.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Queen Anne engraved by Joseph Nutting.

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“An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other parts of Europe and America. With some reasons and plain direction for our hearty and vigorous prosecution of this glorious work. In a letter to a friend. To which is added, the special obligations of magistrates, to be diligent in the execution of the penal-laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting of a national reformation.,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed December 14, 2025, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/4153.