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BNL.742.008
16 Dec 1742:12 (2021)
Boston. From the High Dutch Pennsylvania Journal of Nov. 16.
1742.
From Manheim and other parts of the Upper Palatinate we are
informed, that at Gimsheim, at several times, many persons
came together on Sundays and evenings to read the Bible and
other books, also that they pray'd and sung. The curate of
the parish check'd them for it, signifying, that it was not
becoming the common people; that he was stationed there for
that purpose, that his studies had cost him much money;
moreover, that the government had plac'd him there for the
cure of souls. But when the people persisted in their
religious meetings, he obtained a judicial commission to
several who examined all suspected persons, if they were on
the people that pray'd and sung ? Those that deny'd, or
made large promises to do so no more, were discharged.
Among them were 17 that confessed the fact, and besides a
fine of 53 guilders, very hardly threatened.----One a poor
school master that came to work in harvest, was detained in
close prison at Alzey 39 weeks for this crime.
N.B. 53 guilders is about 4 times as much as an able man
servant's wages amounts to per annum when he cloaths
himself.
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