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id: B03003
author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 726
sentence: 35
flesch: 66
cache: cache/B03003.xml
txt: txt/B03003.txt
title:
  Edinburgh, 6 April 1653. Forasmeikle as the provest, bailies, and councel of this burgh being conveened in counsel, finding that this good town hath been, and is greatly abused by strangers, vagabonds, unfree persons, and masterlesse people ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03003 of text R174856 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E164B). [Edinburgh : 1653] Title from caption and first lines of text.


id: A49057
author: City of London (England).
date: 1656
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1382
sentence: 52
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A49057.xml
txt: txt/A49057.txt
title:
  By the mayor whereas by neglect of executing the good lawes and statutes against rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars ...

summary:
  WHereas by neglect of executing the good Lawes and Statutes against Rogues , Vagabonds , and Sturdy beggers That vermine of this Common wealth doth now swarme in and about this City and Liberties , disturbing and annoying the inhabitants and Passengers , by hanging upon Coaches , and clamarous begging at the doores of Churches and private Houses and in the Streets and common wayes ; veguiling the modest , laborious and honest poore , ( the proper objects of Charity ) of much releife and Almes which otherwise might bee disposed to them by bountifull and well minded people : And by this meanes and their corrupt and prophane communication , doe bring dishonor to God , scandall to Religion , and shame to the Government of this City : And for as much as it is intended and resolved that for Reformation of this living Nusance , the said Lawes and Statutes shall bee hence-forth duely and strictly executed within this City and Liberties thereof , and the penaltyes and punishments thereby appointed , imposed and inflicted upon all Persons offending against the same : I doe therefore give notice thereof , And in the name of his Highnes the Lord Protector , doe hereby require and Command all Constables and other Officers and Persons whatsoever within this City and Liberties , to bee diligent and watchfull about their duties herein : For better information whereof and that none may excuse himselfe by pretence of ignorance , I have caused some branches of the said Statutes of most Common concernment to bee added hereunto , expecting that accordingly every Constable doe presently apprehend ( and so continue to doe during his said Office ) all such Rogues , Vagabonds and Sturdy beggers as shall bee found in his parish or precinct , or shall bee brought or sent to him by any of his Neighbors , and to send to Bridewell the place of Correction ) such of them as live within this City and Liberties , who are there to bee received and dealt withall according to Law ; and such as live not within the Liberties aforesaid , to whipp and passe away to the place of their dwelling or last aboad . And that all other Persons doe apprehend or cause to bee apprehended all such as they shall see or know to resort to their houses to receive or begg any Almes , and carry or cause them to bee carried to the next Constable , And that in all other things they give that furtherance to this worke as by the Law is required .


id: A74147
author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1421
sentence: 54
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A74147.xml
txt: txt/A74147.txt
title:
  By the Mayor. Whereas by neglect of executing the good lawes and statutes against rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggers, that vermine of this Common-wealth doth now swarme in and about this city and liberties, ...

summary:
  WHereas by neglect of executing the good Lawes and Statutes against Rogues , Vagabonds , and Sturdy beggers , That vermine of this Common-wealth doth now swarme in and about this City and Liberties , disturbing and annoying the inhabitants and Passengers , by hanging upon Coaches , and clamarous begging at the doores of Churches and private Houses and in the Streets and common Dayes ; beguilling the modest , laborious and honest poore , ( the proper obiects of Charity ) of much reliefe and Almes which otherwise might bee disposed to them by bountifull and well minded people : And by this meanes and their corrupt and prophane communication , doe bring dishonor to God , scandall to Religion , and shame to the Government of this City : And for as much as it is intended and resolved that for Reformation of this living Nusance , the said Lawes and Statutes shall bee hence-forth duely and strictly executed within this City and Liberties thereof , and the penaltyes and punishments thereby appointed , imposed and inflicted upon all Persons offending against the same : I doe thereofore give notice thereof , And in the name of his Highnes the Lord Protector , doe hereby require and Command all Constables and other Officers and Persons whatsoever within this City and Liberties , to bee diligent and watchfull about their duties herein : For better information whereof and that none may excuse himselfe by pretence of ignorance , I have caused some branches of the said Statutes of most Common concernment to bee added hereunto , expecting that accordingly every Constable doe presently apprehend ( and so continue to doe during his said Office ) all such Rogues , Vagabonds and Sturdy beggers as shall bee found in his parish or precinct , or shall bee brought or sent to him by any of his Neighbors , and to send to Bridewell ( the place of Correction ) such of them as live within this City and Liberties , who are there to bee received and dealt withall according to Law ; and such as live not within the Liberties aforesaid , to whipp and passe away to the place of their dwelling or last aboade .


id: B05470
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation against robbers and vagabounds, &c.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1644
sentence: 63
flesch: 60
cache: cache/B05470.xml
txt: txt/B05470.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05470) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 178982) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A43885
author: Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9883
sentence: 301
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A43885.xml
txt: txt/A43885.txt
title:
  An historical narrative of the German princess containing all material passages, from her first arrivall at Graves-end, the 30th of March last past, untill she was discharged from her imprisonment, June the sixth instant. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Together with a brief and notable story, of Billing the Brick-layer, one of her pretended husbands, coming to New-Gate, and demanding of the keeper her deliverance, on Monday the eighth instant. Written by her self, for the satisfaction of the world, at the request of divers persons of honour.

summary:
  Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published.


id: A03924
author: Hutton, Luke, d. 1596.
date: 1638
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14647
sentence: 368
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A03924.xml
txt: txt/A03924.txt
title:
  The discovery of a London monster, called, the blacke dogg of New-gate profitable for all readers to take heed by.

summary:
  mar● in this kind : she had for her p●rpos● a homely sute of apparel , like unto a Trads●mans w●fe , a pa●re of shoo●s with cloth soles to prevent crackling , a fire-sticke in her hand vnkindled , and so in the morning b●time would she along the str●etes , and any where she did chance to espy either Gentlemans or Merchants doore open , in shee would , where being not intercepted by any , what thing soever lay in her way was good purchase , and with her it should : as Hat , Cloake , Gowne , Petticoate , or Smock , or such like . 〈◊〉 h●r●after learne ●hee to beware , Of 〈◊〉 Blacke Dog , and doe his dangers flee , G●ve oth●rs w●rning , least like fall their share .


id: A01433
author: García, Carlos, doctor.
date: 1638
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33317
sentence: 655
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A01433.xml
txt: txt/A01433.txt
title:
  The sonne of the rogue, or, The politick theefe with the antiquitie of theeves : a worke no lesse curious then delectable / first written in Spanish by Don Garcia ; afterwards translated into Dutch, and then into French by S.D. ; now Englished by W.M.

summary:
  So a quarter of an houre after , which was the time that in my conceit , shee was past all thinking of it any further , I thought of mine owne designes , weighing well all the inconveniencies whic● might fall out , among●● which I considered the suspition , conceived by her to be most difficult , it seeming to me that she would not sleepe but by halfes , and that seeing the least appearance of that shee imagined , shee would raise the house with her cryes , and put all the neighbours in armes . That Virgil drew all his richest inventions from Homor , Hesiod and Theocritus , and that Cicero boldly furnish● himselfe with the doctrine of the Stoiques Academiques and Epicures .


id: A42233
author: Garcia, Carlos.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32628
sentence: 662
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A42233.xml
txt: txt/A42233.txt
title:
  Lavernæ, or, The Spanish gipsy the whole art, mystery, antiquity, company, noblenesse, and excellency of theeves and theeving : with their statutes, laws, customes, practices, varieties, and differences, also their originall, rise, and beginning, of what parents, education and breeding the author was : with a pleasant discourse hee had in prison with a most famous theefe, and also his last disgrace, being a work no lesse curious than delectable / first written in Spanish by Don. Garcia ; now in English by W.M.

summary:
  That libertie is that which guideth and directeth mans actions to diverse ends , without enforcing them and with pleasure , choosing , and commanding , experience teacheth this , in which the supreme work-master would distinguish man from other living creatures , whose end obtaineth by a naturall instinct , which leadeth them , as by a bridle , to the appetite and delight in it , and that it is so powerfull , and maketh man so absolute , that his vnderstanding having proposed the good , the perfect , the honest and the delectable , he may resolve with himselfe to love it or not to love it at all , sith that none but God may aske a reason of this so absolute commandement , Naturall Philosophie telleth it . Whence you shall understand , that to steale and robbe is in a sort naturall to man , and that it goeth by inheritance , and propagation in all the linage of men , and not by cunning .


id: A43170
author: Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 60972
sentence: 1193
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A43170.xml
txt: txt/A43170.txt
title:
  Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies.

summary:
  THe Reader being sick , he was forced to officiate in his place , and resolving to give some of the Grandees a rub , who had offended him , he turned to that Psalm wherein are these words , Man without understanding is like the Beast that perisheth , instead thereof , reads man without understanding , is like the best of the Parish . A Lass espying a young mans testicles hang out of his breeches , that were broken in the seat , askt him with a seeming or real ignorance what it was ? it is my Purse quoth he , thy Purse quoth she , then I am sure my Purse is cut .


