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BEP(F.769.043
24 Jul 1769:41,42 (1765)
[In an essay answering a letter which replied to the
Farmer's letters, end of column 1]". . . And what was that
squabble? Why a part of it was this: Two years before our
fathers first came to Plymouth, viz. May 24, 1618, Lord's-
day, King James issues his declaration, wherein he requires
the bishop of Lancashire, to present all Puritans and
Precisans with the same; either constraining them to
conform, or to leave the country; that those who attend on
church on Sundays, be not disturbed or discouraged from
dancing, archery, leaping, vaulting, having may-games,
whitson-ales, morrice dances, setting up may poles, and
other sports therewith used, or any other such harmless
recreation, on Sundays after divine service. . . "
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