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Rev. Sanzue[ W/dting. IO9<br />

consideration of fifty pounds apiece long since<br />

laid out in the common adventure, the Court<br />

grants his request, i.e., four hundred acres<br />

apiece to them, the said John Whiting and<br />

Richard Westland, and their heirs and assigns,<br />

and that it be laid out adjoining to such lands<br />

as are taken up by order of this Court." _<br />

It was during this year, 1659, that the Gen-<br />

eral Court passed a law, "which provided that<br />

any person who should observe any such day<br />

as Christmas, either by forbearing to labor,<br />

feasting, or any other way, upon any such<br />

account, should, for every such offence, pay five<br />

shillings to the country."<br />

This was one of numerous acts which illustrate<br />

the irreconcilable conflict of intolerance<br />

with liberty of conscience. In the following<br />

extract from Turner's Journal, allusion is made<br />

to a prosecution which was instituted Under<br />

this law. t<br />

" 1660. Octo rye 30 : We hear yt Mr Burton<br />

hath been to ye Courte to complaine of Winnie<br />

Iohnstone for ye keeping of Christmas wch jt<br />

* 4 Mass. Rec., 406. t Lin, p 82.

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