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The generous projector, or a friendly proposal to prevent murder and other enormous abuses, by erecting an hospital for foundlings and bastard-children. With a full answer to all objections yet brought against that laudable undertaking. Also to save many persons from destruction, by clearing the streets of shameless strumpets, suppressing gaming-tables and Sunday debauches: with a plain explosion of, and proposal to amend a growing abuse, viz. the barbarous custom of men's putting their wives into private mad-houses, on frivolous pretences, where they often end their days in the utmost misery: also a proposal to amend several great abuses daily committed by watermen. and necessary hints for redressing divers other publick grievances, which call aloud for amendment. Humbly dedicated to the right honourable Humphry Parsons, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the city of London. And highly worthy the consideration of the Legislature.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1731
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An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies, in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D. D. Minister of Popler.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: MDCCI. [1701]
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An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D.D.
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1744
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Londinopolis : essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London / edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner.
Date: 2005
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Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.
Mount, ToniDate: 2014
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A summary view of the rise, constitution, and present state of the charitable foundation of King Charles the Second, commonly called, The Scots Corporation in London. With An Alphabetical List of the Benefactors, taken from the Registers, and from the Tables hung up in their Hall.
Scots Hospital of King Charles II.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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An appeal to the governors of the Foundling Hospital, on the probable consequences of covering the hospital lands with buildings. In this appeal the original institution of the charity, and the present state of its revenues, are investigated.
Holliday, John, 1730?-1801.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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Respectability and the London poor, 1780-1870 : the value of virtue / by Lynn MacKay.
MacKay, Lynn.Date: 2013
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A fortnights ramble through London, or a complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son ...
Date: 1795
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Augusta triumphans: or, the way to make London the most flourishing city in the universe. First, by establishing an university where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. To prevent much Murder, &c. by an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By suppressing pretended Mad-Houses, where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c. and many Widows are lock'd up for the Sake of their Jointure. IV. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets, Suppressing Gaming-Tables, and Sunday Debauches. V. To avoid the expensive Importation of Foreign Musicians, by forming an Academy of our own. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful, by preventing the immoderate Use of Geneva: With a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestable Rules for Amendment. Concluding with an effectual method to prevent street robberies; and a letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the orphan's tax.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1728]
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The tricks of the town: or, ways and means for getting money. Wherein The various Lures, Wiles, and Artifices, practised by the Designing and Crafty upon the Weak and Unwary, are fully exposed. Recommended to the serious perusal of all adventurers and sharers in bubble-undertakings, the Pursuers of Pennyworths, and Bargain-Buyers. Chiefly collected from some papers of the ingenious Mr. John Thomson, scattered between Laurence-Pountney's-Hill and Dover.
Thomson, John, active 1732.Date: [1732]

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An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies, in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D. D. Minister of Popler.

An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D.D.

Londinopolis : essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London / edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner.

Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.

A summary view of the rise, constitution, and present state of the charitable foundation of King Charles the Second, commonly called, The Scots Corporation in London. With An Alphabetical List of the Benefactors, taken from the Registers, and from the Tables hung up in their Hall.

An appeal to the governors of the Foundling Hospital, on the probable consequences of covering the hospital lands with buildings. In this appeal the original institution of the charity, and the present state of its revenues, are investigated.

Respectability and the London poor, 1780-1870 : the value of virtue / by Lynn MacKay.

A fortnights ramble through London, or a complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son ...

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An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies, in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D. D. Minister of Popler.

An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D.D.

Londinopolis : essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London / edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner.

Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.

A summary view of the rise, constitution, and present state of the charitable foundation of King Charles the Second, commonly called, The Scots Corporation in London. With An Alphabetical List of the Benefactors, taken from the Registers, and from the Tables hung up in their Hall.

An appeal to the governors of the Foundling Hospital, on the probable consequences of covering the hospital lands with buildings. In this appeal the original institution of the charity, and the present state of its revenues, are investigated.

Respectability and the London poor, 1780-1870 : the value of virtue / by Lynn MacKay.

A fortnights ramble through London, or a complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son ...