Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Religious, Moral and Educational, Legal, Military, and Political Condition of the People Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's sons, 1910 |
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... living unlawfully together , received each a round of thirty lashes ; and they were thereafter kept separate until they had been legally united . John Smith , also of Lower Norfolk , was , for 1 See Lower Norfolk County Records , Orders ...
... living unlawfully together , received each a round of thirty lashes ; and they were thereafter kept separate until they had been legally united . John Smith , also of Lower Norfolk , was , for 1 See Lower Norfolk County Records , Orders ...
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... any be known either to profane the Lord's Day or his name , or be found drunke , commit whoredom , scandalize or disturb his neighbour , or give offence to the world by living suspiciously in any Bastardy and Slander 53.
... any be known either to profane the Lord's Day or his name , or be found drunke , commit whoredom , scandalize or disturb his neighbour , or give offence to the world by living suspiciously in any Bastardy and Slander 53.
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... living suspiciously in any bad course , there are for each of these severe and wholesome laws and remedies made and put into execution . I can confidently affirm that since my beinge in England , which is not yet four months , I have ...
... living suspiciously in any bad course , there are for each of these severe and wholesome laws and remedies made and put into execution . I can confidently affirm that since my beinge in England , which is not yet four months , I have ...
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... living ; she at once appealed to the justices of the county for permission to remain , as she had ground there prepared for a crop , which , she said , would be lost to her and her " poor children , " should she be forced to abandon it ...
... living ; she at once appealed to the justices of the county for permission to remain , as she had ground there prepared for a crop , which , she said , would be lost to her and her " poor children , " should she be forced to abandon it ...
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... living during nearly three weeks.1 Again , in 1687 , Hannah Moore , of Northamp- ton , being entirely without means to afford her relief in her distress , was placed in the home of Thomas Lucas , with whom the churchwardens of Hungar's ...
... living during nearly three weeks.1 Again , in 1687 , Hannah Moore , of Northamp- ton , being entirely without means to afford her relief in her distress , was placed in the home of Thomas Lucas , with whom the churchwardens of Hungar's ...
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Page 14 - Lastly and chiefly, the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind, for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.
Page 614 - Correction'], there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of , and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.
Page 245 - Majesties protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 29 - Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their dioceses and charges, as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues, wherewith Almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome law.
Page 442 - Many lords of manors had received an education differing little from that of their menial servants. The heir of an estate often passed his boyhood and youth at the seat of his family with no better tutors than grooms and gamekeepers, and scarce attained learning enough to sign his name to a Mittimus...
Page 17 - It is provided and enacted, that every person at his or their respective admission to be incumbent in any...
Page 4 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Page 205 - England, very few of good conversation would adventure thither, (as thinking it a place wherein surely the fear of God was not), yet many came, such as wore Black Coats, and could babble in a Pulpit, roar in a Tavern, exact from their Parishioners and rather by their dissoluteness destroy than feed their Flocks.
Page 7 - Likewise adding hereunto her great appearance of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God, her capableness of understanding, her aptness and willingness to receive any good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her own, incitements stirring me up hereunto.
Page 456 - But in truth they lost little by living in rural seclusion. For, even in the highest ranks, and in those situations which afforded the greatest facilities for mental improvement, the English women of that generation were decidedly worse educated than they have been at any other time since the revival of learning.