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PG-P.754.054
23 May 1754:31 (1326)
Lancaster County, ff. The Address of the Grand Inquest for
the Body of this County, To the Justices of the Court of
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held for the said
County, the first Tuesday of May, 1754.
May it please your worships,
It is not without considerable concern that we are under a
necessity to lay before you the complaints of sundry
persons, concerning the great abounding of immorality in
this borough.
It has been represented to us, that it is the common
practice of waggoners to driver thro' this down on the
Sabbath Day, . . . [20 lines, also complaining of barbers
who shave on the Sabbath.]
We are concerned to hear so universal complaint through
the county, about a dancing school, kept for some time in
our Court house, and the surprizing methods which were taken
to obtain it, that some of our magistrates should be so
impos'd on, when their consent was requested, by desiring
the use of the Court-house, only as a place to teach the
mathematicks; which, when obtained, was used for a dancing
school; and that when our commissioners understood what use
it was put to, and demanded the key, were answered they
should not have it, but that they would make use of it, for
that they had the consent of the justices. We think such
usage is very hard, and that those who encourage such
schools, are greatly to blame. We are sensible that damage
has been done to the Court-house by it, the cieling being
broke down, and the windows shattered and broken, which we
think will be hard that the country should pay for
repairing; but that rather the encouragers and promoters of
the dancing-school, should discharge the expences.
We request that the court wou'd take into consideration
the above particulars. . . [20 more lines, signed by 14
men.]
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