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History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

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to anger."[34] The work <strong>of</strong> establishing Sunday<br />

sacredness in Engl<strong>and</strong> was carried steadily<br />

forward:--<br />

"King A<strong>the</strong>lston, ... in <strong>the</strong> year 928, made a law<br />

that <strong>the</strong>re should be no marketing or civil pleadings<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong>, under <strong>the</strong> penalty <strong>of</strong> forfeiting<br />

<strong>the</strong> commodity, besides a fine <strong>of</strong> thirty shillings for<br />

each <strong>of</strong>fense."[35]<br />

In a convocation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> English clergy about<br />

this time, it was decreed that all sorts <strong>of</strong> traffic <strong>and</strong><br />

holding <strong>of</strong> courts, etc., on Sunday should cease.<br />

"And whoever transgressed in any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

instances, if a freeman, he was to pay twelve orae,<br />

if a servant, be severely whipt." We are fur<strong>the</strong>r<br />

informed that,<br />

"About <strong>the</strong> year 943, Otho, archbishop <strong>of</strong><br />

Canterbury, had it decreed that above all things <strong>the</strong><br />

Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> should be kept with all imaginable<br />

caution, according to <strong>the</strong> canon <strong>and</strong> ancient<br />

practice."[36]<br />

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