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A History of the County of Stafford
… a lectureship to provide a lecturer who would preach every Sunday and on the principal feasts and also visit the sick. … curate 1643-8, suffered at the hands of 'rebels': one Sunday they dragged him from the reading-desk and into the … 53 In 1773 there were two services and two sermons every Sunday, with prayers on holy days and a sermon at 6 o'clock …
A History of the County of Stafford
… poor 74 and several private academies, 75 and the first Sunday schools were opened in 1786 and 1788. 76 The … read but could not write. Parents relied overwhelmingly on Sunday schools and dame schools: of the children at school over 42 per cent attended Sunday schools and just under 42 per cent went to dame …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was paid off by Mrs. Benjamin Cutler. There was already a Sunday school before the building of the chapel. The … the lower and darker depth of Antinomianism'. On Census Sunday 1851 75 people attended the chapel in the morning and … of the church numbered 25 at that time and 76 by 1843. A Sunday school was built behind the chapel for the growing …
A History of the County of Stafford
… customary for the parish officers to inspect alehouses on Sunday afternoons during divine service, and in 1776 they … in the parish. 65 In 1819 it appointed seven paid 'Sunday' constables to disperse disorderly crowds, close … 66 Sabbath-breaking, however, continued, and in 1825 'Sunday' constables were reappointed especially to prevent …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of communicants was given in 1834 as 120. 82 On Census Sunday 1851 500 people heard mass at St. Michael's. 83 There …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the Gooseberry Wake and held at Cutler's End on the first Sunday in August, existed in the early 19th century. 97 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… vicar of West Dean should read service at Chilgrove on one Sunday in every month; he should cause service to be held on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a parish library and monthly magazine. In 1959 the main Sunday services were parish communion at 9 and sung matins at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… proprietors of Thorney paper-mill at Iver (Bucks.). 65 A Sunday evening congregation of 150 was claimed in 1851. 66 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of 1827 may have belonged to a private school, or the Sunday school. According to a return of 1818 the 'poorer … 14 girls attended two private schools, and there were two Sunday schools, one, belonging to St. Martin's church, … attended by 25 boys and 47 girls. 77 In 1842 the church Sunday school met in the body of the church, 78 but by 1846 a …