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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Indeed it was out of such mixed assemblies that the Baptist 
societies sprung. 
But we must return to the local Puritanism. This developed 
remarkably during the reigns of Elizabeth and James. In 1609 an 
order was made that no beer should be carried through the streets 
on the Sabbath except for the supply of strange ships; and we 
have another Puritanic clue in the constitutions of the Hospital of 
Orphans' Aid, founded by Thomas and Nicholas Sherwill in 1617 ; 
and of the Hospital of the Poor's Portion, founded by John Gayer, 
Abraham Colmer, and Edmund Fowel, ' ' in performance of the 
trust reposed in them by the Mayor and Commonalty," in 1630. 
In the constitutions of the Orphans' Aid we read : " Our will 
and desire is chiefly that they may be trained up religiously to the 
knowledge and fear of God, and to that end that they be cate- 
chized duly every day in the principles of religion, or at least one 
of them by turn in the hearing of the rest, either in the evening 
after supper, or at some other time as their tutor shall see con- 
venient. Further our will is that duly, morning and evening, and 
at their repasts, they be held to prayer and thanksgiving. "We 
would have them observe that they be duly at church at sermons, 
and other times convenient, and behave themselves reverently 
there, and that they be examined touching what they learn there, 
and restrained from idle recreation, on the Sabbath-day especially. 
.... As we would have especial care taken that the Sabbath-day 
be duly observed generally in all religious exercises, so more par- 
ticularly for the perpetual remembrance of God's mercy to this 
land and His whole Church, more especially manifested to this 
place in that great deliverance a.d. 1588, we desire that yearly on 
the Sabbath-day next before the 25th July, there be read by them 
the whole prophecy of Joel, which was preached on and particularly 
applied to that invasion and deliverance, in this church about that 
time, and in part accomplished in our sight ; and further that there 
be sung at the same time either the 46th or the 124th psalm, or 
some other to the like purpose." 
The orders of the Poor's Portion direct: " First and principally 
we ordain that care be had that honest and religious orders and 
exercises be used within the said house, and by all the inhabitants 
therein, and that they be instructed and exercised in religious 
duties on the Lord's-day at such times as the public assemblies for 
religion are not ; that every morning and evening they have their 
