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CHAPTER XVI. 



Sunday Dealings. 



According to a Law of King Athelstan, " merchand- 

 izing on the Lord's Day is prohibited " ; and a 

 statute of Charles II. (an Act for the Better Observ- 

 ance of the Lord's Day) enacts " that no tradesman, 

 labourer, artificer, workman, or other person what- 

 soever, shall do or exercise any worldly labour, busi- 

 ness, or work of their ordinary callings upon the 

 Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of charity 

 and necessity only excepted), and any person being 

 of the age of fourteen years, or upwards, offending 

 in these premises shall for every such offence forfeit 

 the sum of five shillings ; and that no person or 

 persons whatsoever shall publicly cry, show forth, 

 or expose to sale any wares, merchandizes, fruit, 

 herbs, goods or chattels whatsoever upon the 

 Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that 

 every person so offending shall forfeit the same 

 goods so cried or showed forth, or exposed for 

 sale." 



