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Title: The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
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Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
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»U DISSENSIONS AND SCOFFINGS. (1547. Even the honest enthusiasts carried their hatred of superstition intounchristian irreverence. Coarse and profane songs against the mass wereheard in streets and taverns. A preacher would ascend the pulpit, anddeclaim against making the host an object of idolatry, whilst the priest wasperforming the ancient ceremonies before the altar. Sometimes the magistratewould pull the preacher out of the pulpit. Sometimes the clergy would leavethe church, and ancient members of the congregation would denounce him, andcry out come from him, good people ; he came from the devil. * A statuteof 1531-2 shows the bitter and contentious spirit of the time: Forasmuchas of late divers and many outrageous and barbarous behaviours and acts liavabeen used and committed by divers ungodly and irreligious persons, by quar-relling, brawling, fraying, and fighting, openly in churches and churchyards. tLatimer complains of indecencies at burials : In the time of popery, before
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The Robin Hood Procession. the gospel came amongst us, we went to burials with weeping and wailing, asthough there were no God : but since the gospel came unto us, I have heardsay that in some places they go with the corses, grinning and flearing, asthough they went to a bear-baiting. J The people rushed from one extremeto the otlier, as is mostly the case in seasons of change. Some inveteratclyclung to tlie old holidays, which was a serious grief to the earnest reformers.They, like their puritan successors, did not iiinke sufficient allowance for theforce of long-coutinucd customs; and shut their eyes to the positive bcnciit,physical and moral, derived from occasional relaxation and merriment. Theyrelied too much u))on their power of making men wiser and better by * Pee the Rroount of Tiioina.** Iianoock, in StrypoR Life of CrnuiiuT.t Sermon in 1652. t r, U C, Ed. \T. 1547.) HOLIDAYS—POPULAK SPORTS. 491 instruction, and nothing but instruction. The good Latimer is not vervhard upon

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