To all and every tavern-keeper, inn-keeper, and alehouse-keeper, butcher, poulterer, fishmonger, fruiterer, and other persons using and trade or business of buying and selling within the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields ... Notice and warning is hereby given, to all such persons as shall hereafter offend (against any of the statutes for the due observation of the Lord's day) by selling or esposing to sale any flesh, fish, fruit, or other things, or suffering any persons to sit tippling in any tavern, ... .

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Lewis Walpole Library > To all and every tavern-keeper, inn-keeper, and alehouse-keeper, butcher, poulterer, fishmonger, fruiterer, and other persons using and trade or business of buying and selling within the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields ... Notice and warning is hereby given, to all such persons as shall hereafter offend (against any of the statutes for the due observation of the Lord's day) by selling or esposing to sale any flesh, fish, fruit, or other things, or suffering any persons to sit tippling in any tavern, ... .

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Title: To all and every tavern-keeper, inn-keeper, and alehouse-keeper, butcher, poulterer, fishmonger, fruiterer, and other persons using and trade or business of buying and selling within the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields ... Notice and warning is hereby given, to all such persons as shall hereafter offend (against any of the statutes for the due observation of the Lord's day) by selling or esposing to sale any flesh, fish, fruit, or other things, or suffering any persons to sit tippling in any tavern, ... .
Published / Created: [1755]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Caption title.
A handbill issued by the churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, forbidding businesses to operate on Sundays, "Except works of necessity" and also mandating the hours that households must show lights on the exteriors.
Signed by the churchwardens: Thomas Kynaston and Richard Smith.
Not in ESTC.
Mounted on thin card. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Alastor Rare Books; July 2021.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 646 755 T55

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Genre: Handbills
Ephemera
Brit tracts
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Sunday
Street lighting
Subjects: St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Sunday > England > London
Street lighting > England > London
Brit tracts > 1755

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