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Show Place Ban on Christmas Puritanism brought over with it in the Mayflower the anti-Christma feelings. In 1659 the general court of Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, following the example of the English parliament, enacted a law providing: "anybody who is 1 found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting, or any other way, any such day as Christmas, shall pay j for such offense five shillings." The! law remained in effect until 1681.' The repeal, however, was bitter to, old Puritanisms, which kept up an j even protest down to the early part 1 of the present century. |