Show old english law made churchgoing compulsory golfers Goi picnickers sunday auto ests would be out ot of luck it an old E english g h law were in force today the act of uniformity 1552 required all persons except those dissenting in from the worship or doctrines 0 of tb the e church of england and usually attending some place of worship not belonging to the church of england are it if they have no lawful or of reasonable excuse for absence to endeavor to attend their parish church or accustomed cus tomed chapel or it if reasonably prevented from so doing some other place where the divine service of 0 the church of england Is performed on alj sundays and other days ordained and used to be kept hept as holy days and to abide there orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer preaching or other divine service there performed failure to observe this law renders the offending parishioner or inhabitant of a parish who Is not cot legally exempt from attendance at divine service on sundays and holy days liable in proceedings taken against a asnat him in the ecclesiastical courts to be censured for the offense admonished as to its attendance in the future and to be condemned in the costs of the proceedings |