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- 1638.1 + (<p>Bishop Mantague admonishes Norwic … <p>Bishop Mantague admonishes Norwich Churchmen to consider the churchyard as consecrated ground, "not to be profaned by feeding and dunging cattle . . . . Much less is it to be unhallowed with dancings, morrises, meetings at Easter, drinkings, Whitson ales, midsummer merriments or the like, stool ball, football, wrestlings, wasters or boy's sports."</p></br><p>Barrett, Jay Botsford, <u>English Society in the Eighteenth Century as Influence from Oversea</u> [Macmillan, New York, 1924], page 221. Barrett cites this passage as Articles of Enquiry and Direction for the Diocese of Norwich, sigs. A3-A3v.</p></br><p>1638.2 - Archdeacon: Churchyards Are Not For Stoole-ball or "Other Profane Uses"</p></br><p>"Have any playes, feasts, banquets, suppers, churchales, drinkings, temporal courts or leets, lay juries, musters, exercise of dauncing, stoole-ball, foot-ball, or the like, or any other profane usage been suffered to be kept in your church, chappell, or churchyard?</p></br><p>Attributed to Mr. Dr. Pearson, Archdeacon of Suffolke, in Heino Pfannenschmid, <u>Das Weihwasser</u> [Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hannover, 1869], page 74n.</p>ke, in Heino Pfannenschmid, <u>Das Weihwasser</u> [Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hannover, 1869], page 74n.</p>)