Class 8: Morality, manners and regulation
Secondary sources
Robert Shoemaker, ‘Reforming the city: the reformation of manners campaign in London, 1690-1738′, in L Davison et al (eds), Stilling the grumbling hive: the response to social and economic problems in England 1689-1750.
Martin Ingram, ‘Reformation of manners in early modern England’, in P Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority in early modern England.
R von Friedeburg, ‘Reformation of manners and the social composition of offenders in an East Anglia cloth village: Earl’s Colne, Essex, 1531-1642′, Journal of British Studies, 29, (1990). [e-journal]
Primary source
Petition against an illegal alehouse
Alternatively: Prosecution for whoring