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PG-P.773.054
10 Nov 1773:23, 21 (2342)
To the printers of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Be pleased to
insert, in your next paper, the following observations,
which will oblige divers of your customers. It is matter of
real sorrow and distress to many sober inhabitants, of
different denominations, to hear of the return of those
strolling comedians, who are traveling thro' America,
propagating vice and immorality. . . [27 lines]
Whereas by an act of Parliament, made in the twelfth year of
the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act
for reducing the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, sturdy
beggars and vagrants, into one act of Parliament; and for
the more effectual punishing such rogues, vagabonds, sturdy
beggars and vagrants, and sending them [ ] they ought to
be sent. . . [16.5 lines naming actors, musicians as
vagabonds and the subsequent punishment for entertaining,
and then into page 2, col.1 are 78 lines devoted to
protecting housed players in particular London districts].
Select words of William Penn, so 94, 95. And in order to
show the sense of the first settlersof this privince upon
the subject, it may be profitable to recite part of the 37th
of the laws agreed upon by the Governor and Freemen in
Engalnd, shortly after obtaining the provincial charter,
which is as follows . . . [21 lines naming offenders such as
stage-plays, common players, play-house as a public
nuisance, and signed by Philadelphus.]
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