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The Third Charge of Whitlocke Bulstrode, Esq; to the Grand-Jury, and other Juries of the County of Middlesex, at the General Quarter-Session of the Peace held the Fourth Day of October, 1722, at Westminster-Hall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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Printed at the Desire of the Justices of the Peace for the County, and the High-Constables and Petty-Constables Juries.

—Quid Demens manifestat negas? en Pectus inustœ

Deformant maculœ; vitiisque indevit imago

Aduletra mens est. Claud.

LONDON, Printed for D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, and R. Gosling at the Midde-Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street. 1723.

T O Whitlocke Bulstrode, Esq;

We the High Constables and Petty Constables within the several Hundreds of the County of Middlesex, being duly sensible of the great growth of Immorality and Profafehess within our several Districts or Divisions; And knowing that, with the Divine Assistance, nothing can put a Stop to the further Progress thereof more, than the Zeal and Vigilance of the Worthy magistrates and other Inferiour Officers, in putting the Laws in execution agaisnt such Offenders; Do make it our humble Request to Your Worship, That you would be pleas'd to cause the Excellent CHARGE, given us this Day, to be Printed: Which [* 1] we hope may tend to the Encouragement of Inferiour Officers to do their Duty, and be a great Means to prevent growing Impiety.

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1992

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page 164 note 1 This is to be found as a leit-motiv in criminal biographies, so numerous at the time; cf, e.g., Defoe's A Narrative of all the Robberies, &c. of J. Sheppard, 1724Google Scholar, ed. G. Lamoine (Plan de la Tour: Editions d'Aujourd'hui, 1980), p. 6, where he mentions his “frequenting of this wicked house [in Drury-Lane] brought me acquainted with Elizabeth Lyons, and with a Train of Vices…”

page 164 note 2 = the real cause.

page 164 note 3 = The detestable crime which is to remain unnamed among Christians nations.

page 166 note 1 Castalio or Sébastien Chateillon (1515–63), Biblia sacra ex Sebastiani Castellionis interpretatione…-1st ed., 1551, the best ed., 1573.

page 166 note 2 The two ed. could be: Biblia sacra integrum utriusque testammti corpus complectrns. Parisiis: ex edibus Yolande Bonhomme, 1534; Biblia ad vetustissima castigate… Antverpiæ: Chr. Plantini, 1567. on the text of the Louvain ed., B. Gravius, 1547, by Johannes Hentensius.

page 166 note 3 Sir John Vaughan, 1603–74, C.J. of the Common Pleas, 1668.

page 166 note 4 Most likely Abraham ibn Esra, whose first printed work is given as: Lyons, 1496. See Catal. ouvrages imprimés de la Biblioth. nationale.

page 167 note 1 Matthew Poole, 1624–79, D. N. B.

page 167 note 1 Whitlocke's Latin is obviously better than his French. ‘Paillard’ is originally one whose only bedding was straw; the imperative should be, in the 2nd person singular, * tu ne paillarderas point”.

page 167 note 3 Erasmus, indeed, has render'd GUNH, Uxor; Quiculque aspexerit Uxorem alterius ad concufiscendam earn, &c. But the Annotator on the Old and New Version prefers Mulier to Uxor, Sic Rectius (inquit) Vetus interpres quam Erasmus, Qui Uxorem interpretatur, &c. Neque duntaxat dictum velit Christus, adulterim etiam Oculis committi, sed aliquid amplius; Nempe omnem libidinosum, asectul cocuspicentis Mulierem, sive nuptam, sive inuptam, hoc prœcepto prohibere, &c.

page 167 note 4 Henry Hammond, D. D., 1605–60 See D. N. B.

page 168 note 1 Matt. 5: 28, 32.

page 168 note 2 1638–1726. See D. N. B.

page 168 note 3 Lev. 19: 29.

page 168 note 4 Num. 25: 1.

page 173 note 1 1 Tim. 5: 8.