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Show Old English Law Made Churchgoing Compulsory Golfers, picnickers, Sunday autoists would be out of luck if au old English Eng-lish law were In force today. Tin-act Tin-act of uniformity, 1552, required: "All persons, except those dissent Ing from the worship or doctrines of the Church of England and usually at tending some place of worship not be longing to the Church of England, are If they have no lawful or reasonable excuse for absence, to endeavor to at tend their parish church or accustomed accus-tomed chapel, or, If reasonably pre vented from so doing, some othei place where the divine service of the Church of England Is performed, on all Sundays and other days ordained and used to be kept as holy days, and to abide there orderly and soberly during dur-ing the time of common prayer, preaching or other divine service there performed." Failure to observe this law renders the offending "parishioner or Inhabitant Inhabit-ant of a parish" who Is not legally ex empt from attendance nt divine service serv-ice on Sundays and holy days "liable in proceedings taken against him In the ecclesiastical courts to be censured cen-sured for the offense, admonished a? to its attendance in the future, and to be condemned In the costs of the proceedings." |
