 It is enacted by the court, that any person or persons that shall be found smoking of tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the colony's...  The Graves of Myles Standish and Other Pilgrims - Page 14by Eugene Joseph Vincent Huiginn - 1892 - 35 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Deane - History - 1831 - 422 pages
...their pipes, and the clouds of smoke in the Church. Hence that law of the Colony, passed 1669: "It is enacted that any person or persons that shall be found...meetings, within two miles of the Meeting-house, shall pay 12 pence for every such default, for the Colonie's use, to be increased," &ic. Richard Lombard was... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...pay, to be set in the stocks for the first default, and for the second to be whipped. And any person that shall be found smoking of tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from the meeting, within two miles of the meeting-house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the... | |
 | Andrew Henshaw Ward - Registers of births, etc - 1847 - 520 pages
...regarded; for in 1669, it was "enacted by the Court, that any person or persons who shall be found smoking tobacco, on the Lord's day, going to or coming from...miles of the meeting-house, shall pay twelve pence for such default, to the colony's use." " Soldiers, while in arms, are dispensed with to smoke in the field."... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Duxbury (Mass.) - 1849 - 376 pages
...that great and honorable worke of the preaching of the Gospell, unto which he is called." 1669. "It is enacted that any person or persons that shall be found...coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting house, shall pay 12 pence for every such default for the Colony's use." 1675. This year died... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - Church history - 1855 - 698 pages
...Laws of Mass.) 6 "It is enacted by the court, that any p'son or p'sons that shall be found smoaking tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the colonie's use." (Id.)' There were... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1865 - 688 pages
...measure of punishment to be inflicted.5 A fine of two shillings was imposed on "any person or persons found smoking of tobacco on the Lord's day, going...coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting-house."6 The public charges were defrayed from the avails of direct taxes, levied " according... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 544 pages
...Massachusetts (1669) it was enacted by the court, that " any person or persons who shall be found smoking tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from...meeting-house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default. The same penalty was imposed for " taking tobacco publicly in the open streets of any town." There... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1870 - 698 pages
...measure of punishment to be inflicted.6 A fine of two shillings was imposed on "any person or persons found smoking of tobacco on the Lord's day, going...coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting-house."9 The public charges were defrayed from the avails of direct taxes, levied " according... | |
 | Literature - 1921 - 868 pages
...on the Sabbath day. It is enacted by the court, that any p'son or p'sons that shal be found smoaking Tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the collonie's use. No one shall read... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - American essays - 1894 - 426 pages
...Laws of Mass.) 6 "It is enacted by the court, that any p'son or p'sons that shall be found smoaking tobacco on the Lord's day, going to or coming from the meetings, within two miles of the meeting house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the colonie's uso." (Id.)7 There were... | |
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