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The corporation passed an order, which, after reciting the proceedings of the first court held under this charter, as to the better observance of the Sabbath day, stated, that “many masters of families,” and “parents of children, do give liberty to their servants and others, to profane the Sabbath, by their open playing in the streets, sitting in public places in great companies, to the great dishonour of God in point of divine worship, in scandal to Christian profession, and to the bad example of the younger sort in point of education,” and concluded by severely threatening all those who might persist in Sabbath breaking for the future.

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The corporation passed an order, which, after reciting the proceedings of the first court held under this charter, as to the better observance of the Sabbath day, stated, that “many masters of families,” and “parents of children, do give liberty to their servants and others, to profane the Sabbath, by their open playing in the streets, sitting in public places in great companies, to the great dishonour of God in point of divine worship, in scandal to Christian profession, and to the bad example of the younger sort in point of education,” and concluded by severely threatening all those who might persist in Sabbath breaking for the future.

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