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Proclamation against Vice and Immorality (2™' S. 
i. 77.) — The first proclamation appears to have 
been issued about the time of the passing of An 
Act for the more effectual suppressing of Blas- 
phemy and Profaneness, 9 & 10 Wm. UL., for it is 
given at the “ Court at Kensington, the Four and 
Twentieth Day of February, 1697,” in the tenth 
year of that king’s reign. Similar proclamations 
were afterwards issued by Queen Anne, on “ the 
Twenty-sixth Day of March, 1702,” in the first 
year of her reign; by George I., on “ the 5th of 
January, 1714,” in the first year of his reign; and 
by George III., immediately after his accession. | 
George II.’s I cannot find at present; but the | 
probability is that one was issued by him. The 
act, and the three first-mentioned proclamations, 
may be found in the Articles, Constitutions, 
Canons, &c., printed by order of the archbishop 
for the use of the parochial clergy, by Basket, in 
1724, and the last in the Gentleman's Magazine 
for 1760, p. 617. O. 8. C1.) 
Sir Edward Minshull (1* S. xi. 109, 110.) — 
Sir Edward Minshull, of Stoke Hall, is said here 
to have had three daughters— Mary, Ann, and 
Elizabeth. If he had not also a daughter Grace, 
married to Wortley, this lady must haye 
been the daughter of one of his younger brothers, 
Perhaps your correspondents can tell me who she 
was ? G. Sremman STEMMAN. 
fHiseeNaneoug, 
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