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Show Smoked In Church. Although tho present universal habit of smoking 13 of comparatively rccdnt dato, tho uso of tobacco was carried to a great exerts when It was first Introduced. Our ancestors smoked oven In church. All such offenders of-fenders wcro rolemnly excommunicated excommuni-cated by Urban VIII. in 1021. nnd again by Innocpnco JCIt. In 1C00, whon tho iiractico seems to hnvo ox-tended ox-tended to Homo ltsplf. Thoro was William Urcetlon, too. vicar of Thornton, Thorn-ton, "a profound divine, and absolutely absolute-ly tho most polite person for nativities nativi-ties in that age," of whom tho astrologer astrolo-ger Lilly says that "when ho had no tobnecu ho "a mild cut tho bell ropey and smoku thorn." |