Show old english law made churchgoing compulsory golfers Col picnickers sunday lats would bo be out of luck if an old english law were in force today the act of uniformity 1552 required all persons except those dissenting from tile the worship or of tile the church of england and usually attending some place of worship not belonging longing to tile he church of england are if they have no lawful or reasonable excuse for absence ali sence to endeavor to bt tend their parish church or accas coined chapel or it reasonably prevented from so doing some other place where the divine service of the church of england la Is performed on all sundays find and other days ordal ordained n ed and used to bo be kept ns as holy days and to abide there orderly and soberly during tho the time of common prayer pre preaching abbing or other divine service there performed failure to observe this law renders the offending parishioner or inhabitant of a parish who Is riot not legally exempt from attendance at divine service on sundays and holy days liable in proceedings taken against him in the ecclesiastical courts to be censured for the ortense off enge admonished as aa to its attendance in the f future and to be condemned jo jn the costs of the proceedings |