Examples
.
1.
A
Woman
near
Northampton
,
the
same
day
the
Book
for
sports
was
read
,
upon
that
Sabbath
day
having
but
three
pence
in
her
purse
,
hired
a
Fellow
to
fetch
a
Minstril
,
who
coming
,
she
with
others
fell
to
Dance
,
and
so
continued
within
night
,
and
the
same
night
was
got
with
Child
,
which
at
the
Birth
she
murthered
,
and
being
detected
and
apprehended
,
she
before
the
Justice
confest
it
,
and
withall
told
the
occasion
,
saying
it
was
her
falling
to
sports
on
the
Sabbath
upon
reading
the
Book
for
sports
had
brought
her
to
this
end
,
for
which
unnatural
fact
she
was
put
to
death
.
2.
At
Northampton
a
young
man
that
was
at
first
of
a
loose
kind
of
life
,
but
after
by
the
example
of
other
good
people
had
begun
to
reform
his
loose
life
in
the
Observation
of
the
Sabbath
,
but
hearing
the
Book
of
sports
he
fell
again
to
prophane
the
Sabbath
:
at
an
Assizes
there
when
the
Judges
were
in
the
Church
being
taken
as
he
was
picking
a
Pocket
,
he
confest
that
upon
the
publishing
the
said
Book
of
sports
he
was
encouraged
to
wickedness
,
and
for
this
suffered
death
.
3.
A
Maid
at
Enfield
near
London
hearing
of
the
Liberty
given
by
this
Book
,
said
,
she
would
dance
,
and
on
the
Sabbath
day
danced
so
long
that
within
two
or
three
days
she
dyed
.
4.
Upon
May
day
,
being
the
Lords
day
,
a
Maid
of
the
Minister
of
Cripple
Gate
Parish
London
,
was
Married
to
a
Widdower
having
three
Children
,
and
upon
this
day
they
kept
their
Marriage
Feast
in
the
Church-house
joyning
to
the
Church
,
and
spent
all
the
Afternoon
in
Dancing
;
but
in
one
Week
after
,
the
Plague
began
in
that
Parish
in
the
new
Married
mans
House
,
and
within
one
Month
the
Man
,
his
Wife
,
and
two
Children
dyed
;
thus
the
Plague
began
in
that
Parish
.
5.
In
the
same
Month
a
Minister
Rector
of
a
Church
in
London
,
upon
the
Saturday
would
go
with
two
Neighbours
,
boon
Companions
,
to
be
Jovial
the
next
day
;
they
conditioned
he
should
bestow
a
Sermon
upon
them
;
they
on
the
Lords
day
spent
the
Forenoon
idly
,
and
in
the
Afternoon
this
Minister
with
his
Neighbours
visited
a
London
Minister
that
had
a
Benefice
there
,
for
whom
he
Preacht
.
Sermon
being
ended
they
are
invited
to
the
Ministers
House
to
a
Bottle
of
Sack
;
they
drank
so
long
that
the
two
Neighbours
tongues
began
to
fail
them
.
That
night
their
Minister
could
not
sleep
and
was
struck
with
a
suddain
coldness
,
and
with
much
ado
being
returned
to
London
,
he
dyed
before
the
next
Lords
day
.
6.
On
Jan.
25.
1●34
.
being
the
Lords
day
in
the
time
of
the
great
Frost
,
fourteen
young
men
presuming
to
play
at
Foot-ball
upon
the
Ice
on
the
River
Trent
near
to
Gainsborough
were
all
drowned
.
7.
At
Dover
the
same
Lord's
day
the
Book
was
read
,
one
in
St.
Jame
s
Parish
that
played
on
a
Kit
,
with
it
called
together
divers
,
and
that
very
day
was
struck
by
Divine
hand
,
and
within
two
days
dyed
.
8.
At
T●urlow
in
Suffolk
,
one
made
a
Feast
on
the
Sabbath
day
to
his
Friends
for
joy
of
the
publishing
this
Book
of
sports
on
the
Lord's
day
,
and
the
next
day
was
prest
to
death
by
the
suddain
fall
of
a
stack
of
Faggots
.
9.
At
Hellingsby
in
Sussex
this
Book
being
read
on
the
Lord's
day
,
the
next
day
an
honest
man
,
one
Tomkins
being
on
his
way
,
his
Neighbour
scoffingly
a●kt
him
if
he
would
dance
with
him
the
next
Sunday
,
to
whom
Tomkins
answered
,
take
heed
thou
be
not
dancing
in
Hell
before
that
day
,
or
before
it
be
long
and
by
the
next
Week
this
scoffer
and
two
of
his
Family
dyed
.
10.
Febru.
9.
1634.
being
upon
the
Lord's
day
,
an
Apothecaries
man
in
Lime-street
London
,
w●th
another
Companion
rid
to
Barnet
to
make
merry
,
and
returning
home
drunk
,
near
High-Gate
met
a
Tinker
,
to
whom
offering
abu●e
the
Tinker
strikes
his
Hor●e
,
the
other
bids
run
him
through
,
which
he
did
with
his
Rapier
,
the
Tinker
fell
down
dead
,
and
both
were
apprehended
and
sent
to
Newgate
.
11.
At
Thornton
near
W●stchester
at
the
publishing
this
Book
,
●hey
prepared
for
a
Summer-ale
upon
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
a
lusty
young
Wench
was
chosen
Purveyor
for
Cakes
,
and
going
on
the
Saturday
to
the
Mill
passing
by
a
Hedge
in
the
way
she
was
immediately
struck
and
fell
into
the
Ditch
,
where
she
was
found
dead
;
there
lay
all
the
Lord's
day
,
the
Coroner
being
sent
for
on
the
Munday
she
was
carried
to
her
Grave
.
And
the
effect
wrought
so
upon
the
people
,
that
no
Summer-Ale
was
kept
;
but
the
May-pole
which
before
they
had
set
up
they
took
down
.
12.
In
Yorkeshire
at
a
Wake
on
the
Lord's
day
,
in
Otley
Parish
at
Baildon
,
two
men
sitting
at
drink
in
the
Night
fell
out
,
and
being
parted
,
the
one
a
little
after
finding
his
fellow
sitting
by
the
fire
with
his
back
towards
him
,
comes
behind
him
with
a
Hatchet
,
Chines
him
down
the
back
,
so
as
his
Bowels
fell
out
:
the
Murtherer
being
pursued
leapt
into
a
River
and
drowned
h●mself
.
13.
One
Wright
at
Kingston
that
re●oyced
much
at
the
suspending
of
his
Minister
,
for
not
reading
the
Book
of
sports
,
saying
he
hoped
shortly
to
see
them
all
so
served
:
was
in
a
day
or
two
after
struck
with
a
dead
Palsie
all
over
the
one
side
,
and
with
Blindness
and
Dumbness
,
that
he
could
neither
go
,
nor
see
,
nor
speak
and
so
lay
a
Fortnight
and
then
dyed
.
14.
In
Moor-fields
near
London
,
divers
Youths
playing
at
Cat
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
two
of
them
fell
out
,
and
the
one
hitting
the
other
under
the
Ear
with
his
Cat
he
fell
down
for
dead
in
the
place
,
the
other
was
sent
to
Prison
;
but
the
dead
after
a
time
recovering
,
the
Prisoner
was
releast
,
which
may
be
a
warning
to
Youths
prophaneness
.
15.
April
the
18.
1635.
one
travelling
with
three
other
from
London
to
Mayden
Head
on
the
Saturday
,
the
three
spent
the
Sabbath
there
,
but
he
would
travel
on
his
way
contrary
to
the
La●ies
direction
whom
he
served
;
he
rode
to
Henley
in
the
Morning
and
there
heard
the
Sermon
and
fell
to
Travel
in
the
Afternoon
;
but
in
the
way
leading
his
Horse
gently
down
a
plain
discent
and
even
way
,
his
Horse
suddainly
fell
and
broke
both
his
fore
leggs
;
the
man
was
amazed
at
the
immediate
hand
of
God
as
he
after
confest
to
his
three
fellow
Travellers
that
overtook
him
,
and
said
all
the
good
Sermons
that
ever
he
had
heard
did
never
so
work
upon
his
Conscience
as
this
thing
did
,
and
that
example
should
for
ever
be
a
warning
to
him
.
16.
In
1634
one
Edward
A●●rideth
,
a
Gentleman
,
having
been
pained
in
his
feet
,
and
being
upon
his
recovery
,
whereupon
one
said
to
him
he
was
glad
to
see
him
so
nimble
;
Amerideth
replied
,
that
he
doubted
not
but
to
dance
about
the
May-pole
the
next
Sabbath
day
:
but
before
he
moved
ou●
of
that
place
he
was
suddainly
struck
with
a
feebleness
and
dizyness
in
his
head
,
that
be●ng
carried
to
an
House
he
dyed
before
the
Lord's
day
came
.
17.
In
Gloc●st●●shire
one
being
very
forward
to
advance
a
summer
meeting
wherein
his
Son
was
to
be
stickler
,
went
himself
to
see
it
and
there
beholding
it
he
fell
down
dead
and
never
saw
an●t●er
Sabbath
.
18.
A
Miller
at
Churchdown
,
near
Glocester
,
would
needs
(
contrary
to
the
admonitions
both
of
his
Minister
in
private
,
and
generally
in
publick
,
yea
and
that
very
day
,
and
of
other
Christian
friends
)
keep
a
solemn
Whitson
ale
,
for
which
he
had
made
large
preparation
and
provision
even
of
threescore
dozen
of
Cheese-cakes
with
other
things
proportionable
;
in
the
Church
house
half
a
mile
from
his
Mill
,
his
Musical
Instruments
were
set
forth
on
the
side
of
t●e
Church
house
,
where
the
Mini●●er
and
people
were
to
pass
to
the
Church
to
Evening
Prayer
,
when
that
and
Sermon
were
ended
,
the
Drum
is
struck
up
,
the
Peeces
discharged
,
the
Musitians
play
,
and
the
rout
fall
a
dancing
,
till
the
Evening
;
where
they
all
with
the
Miller
resort
to
his
Mill
;
where
that
Evening
before
they
had
supt
,
about
nine
of
the
Clock
on
Whitsunday
,
a
fire
took
suddainly
in
his
House
over
their
heads
,
and
was
so
brief
and
quick
,
that
it
burnt
down
his
House
and
Mill
,
and
devoured
withall
the
greatest
of
all
his
other
Provision
and
Housholdstuff
.
This
is
confirmed
by
sundry
good
Testimonies
.
19.
At
Baunton
in
Dorcetshire
some
being
at
Bowls
on
the
Lord's
day
,
one
flinging
his
Bowl
at
his
Fellow
Bowler
,
hit
him
on
the
Fare
,
so
as
the
blood
issued
forth
at
the
other
Eare
,
whereof
he
shortly
died
.
The
Murtherer
fled
.
20.
One
good-man
Paul
near
Stoke
in
Dorcetshire
,
rejoycing
much
at
the
erecting
of
a
Summer-pole
,
at
a
Parish
called
Simsbury
in
●orcetshire
,
and
saying
before
one
of
his
Neighbours
,
he
would
go
see
it
,
though
he
went
naked
through
a
Qu●ckset
Hedg
:
which
is
a
common
Proverb
they
use
:
Going
w●th
Wood
in
his
Arms
to
cast
into
the
Bonfire
,
where
he
lived
,
and
using
these
words
:
Heaven
and
Earth
are
full
of
thy
glory
,
O
Lord
:
he
was
presently
smitten
by
the
stroke
of
God
,
and
within
two
or
three
daies
died
,
and
his
Wife
with
him
.
These
two
last
examples
are
testified
by
a
Minister
in
his
Letter
to
a
Brother
Minister
.
21.
In
the
edge
of
Essex
near
Brinkley
,
two
Fellows
working
in
a
Chalk
pit
,
the
one
was
boasting
to
his
fellow
,
how
he
had
angred
his
Mistress
with
staying
so
late
at
their
Sports
t●e
last
Sunday
night
,
but
he
said
he
would
anger
her
wor●e
the
next
Sunday
.
He
had
no
sooner
said
this
,
but
suddainly
the
Earth
fell
down
upon
him
,
and
slew
him
out
right
,
with
the
fall
whereof
his
fellows
limb
was
broken
,
who
had
been
also
Partner
with
him
in
his
jollity
on
the
Lord's
day
,
escaping
with
his
life
,
that
he
might
tell
the
truth
,
that
God
might
be
glorified
,
and
that
by
this
warning
he
might
repent
of
his
sin
,
and
reform
such
his
prophaneness
,
and
remain
a
Filler
of
Salt
,
to
season
others
with
fear
by
his
Example
.
22.
The
last
Spring
a
Miller
hard
by
W●otten
in
Warwickshire
,
went
on
the
Lord's
day
to
a
Wake
,
whence
returning
home
again
,
the
same
day
at
night
found
his
Mill
and
House
and
all
on
a
fire
;
this
was
testified
by
a
Minister
(
in
a
reply
to
another
Minister
)
who
was
an
Eye
witness
.
23.
At
Woolston
in
the
same
Country
,
where
the
said
Ministers
Father
had
been
Minister
forty
years
,
and
by
God's
blessing
upon
his
Labours
,
had
reformed
things
very
well
;
yet
upon
the
publication
of
this
Book
in
print
,
many
of
the
Inhabitants
the
Spring
following
,
were
imboldned
to
set
up
May
poles
,
Morrice
Dance
,
and
a
Whitson
ale
,
continuing
their
rude
revelling
a
Week
together
,
with
many
affronts
to
their
antient
and
reverend
Pastour
:
but
it
pleased
God
,
that
not
long
after
,
a
spark
from
a
Smith's
shop
,
caught
in
that
room
where
the
Ale
was
brewed
,
and
though
means
were
ready
at
hand
,
yet
it
could
not
be
quenched
,
but
set
the
House
on
fire
,
and
presently
flew
to
the
Barn
,
in
which
their
disorder
was
,
and
burnt
the
same
with
thirteen
Dwelling
Houses
more
,
most
of
whose
Inhabitants
were
Actors
or
Abettors
in
the
same
:
This
is
testified
by
many
.
24.
In
the
year
of
our
Lord
1633.
Octob.
26.
after
the
Book
of
sports
was
known
to
be
published
in
print
,
David
Price
,
a
Welshman
,
servant
to
one
Thomas
Hill
,
a
known
Grasier
of
that
Country
,
coming
to
Banbury
with
his
Drove
on
Saturday
night
,
declared
his
purpose
of
driving
them
the
next
day
early
in
the
Morning
,
being
the
Sabbath
or
Lord's
day
:
his
Host
where
he
lodged
,
disswaded
him
,
because
it
was
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
told
him
that
he
would
certainly
be
stopped
,
and
made
to
pay
for
it
according
to
the
Statute
.
He
answered
that
he
would
drive
them
,
and
let
me
see
(
saith
he
)
who
will
hinder
me
.
So
in
the
Morning
,
two
other
accompanying
him
,
he
went
to
fetch
the
Cattle
out
of
the
Ground
,
one
that
knew
him
,
met
him
at
the
Towns
end
(
not
yet
out
of
the
Town
)
and
adm●ni●ed
●im
,
saying
,
What
,
David
,
to
day
;
he
made
no
answer
,
but
went
onward
,
and
though
for
any
thing
that
appeared
to
any
other
,
or
that
himself
complained
of
,
he
was
then
●n
good
health
,
as
ever
he
was
,
yet
within
l●ttle
more
than
a
stones
cast
off
the
Town
,
he
fell
down
dead
suddainly
,
and
was
buried
in
Banbury
Church-yard
the
next
day
after
;
None
could
discern
any
sensible
or
evident
cause
of
so
suddain
a
surprizal
,
and
himself
gave
no
sign
of
any
pains
,
weakness
,
or
illness
,
till
the
instant
time
he
gave
up
the
ghost
.
25.
At
Wicks
,
a
Town
betwixt
Colchester
and
Harwich
in
Essex
,
upon
Whitsunday
last
in
the
Afternoon
,
two
Fellows
meeting
at
the
football
,
the
one
killed
the
other
.
26.
At
Oxford
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
one
Bally
Hawks
a
Butcher
,
would
needs
go
into
his
field
with
an
hatchet
and
shovel
to
mend
his
ditch
:
his
Wife
disswaded
him
what
she
could
,
being
the
Sabbath
day
,
but
he
said
he
would
go
make
an
end
of
his
work
,
which
he
did
,
for
suddainly
he
was
struck
dead
in
his
ditch
,
and
so
made
an
end
of
his
work
,
and
his
life
together
.
27.
Also
at
Oxford
a
Carpenter
undertaking
to
mend
a
Stage
in
St.
John's
College
on
the
Saturday
night
,
for
the
finishing
whereof
he
must
of
necessity
spend
some
part
of
the
Lord's
day
morning
,
that
the
Stage
might
be
ready
against
the
Munday
following
,
he
that
night
fell
backward
from
the
Stage
,
being
not
far
from
the
ground
,
and
brake
his
neck
,
and
so
ended
his
life
in
a
fearful
Tragedy
.
28.
A
young
man
near
Bow
,
going
to
swim
in
the
River
on
Essex
side
,
on
the
Lord's
day
in
the
Afternoon
,
was
drowned
.
29.
Two
boys
of
St.
Albans
,
going
to
Verulam's
Pounds
,
a
mile
off
to
swim
on
the
Lord's
day
,
July
12.
one
of
them
was
drowned
,
and
the
other
hardly
escaped
.
30.
At
Ramsey
in
Suffolk
,
a
tall
man
on
the
Lord's
day
going
with
others
to
swim
,
and
being
advertised
and
warned
of
a
hole
in
the
water
,
he
sware
that
there
was
no
place
there
could
drown
him
,
but
by
and
by
on
a
suddain
he
was
missing
,
being
now
under
water
and
so
drowned
.
3●
.
On
Septemb.
13.
1635.
being
the
Lord's
day
,
two
young
men
of
the
Parish
of
St.
Dunstans
in
the
West
,
London
,
going
to
swim
,
were
both
drowned
.
32.
At
Lemster
,
one
Master
Powle
,
January
1634.
on
the
Lord's
day
serving
a
Writ
of
sub
poena
(
and
that
of
purpose
on
that
day
as
is
credibly
reported
)
upon
one
Mr.
Shuit
,
a
Gentleman
,
this
he
did
in
the
Church
yard
,
so
soon
as
they
were
come
out
of
the
Church
:
Mr.
Shuit
thereupon
told
him
,
I
thought
you
had
been
an
holier
man
than
so
,
to
do
this
upon
this
day
;
he
replied
,
I
hope
I
am
never
a
whit
the
more
dishonest
,
or
less
holy
for
that
;
having
spoken
this
,
he
suddainly
fell
down
dead
,
and
spake
not
a
word
more
,
his
Wife
seeing
this
was
suddainly
struck
with
sickness
.
33.
A
Fellow
in
Summersetshire
being
to
make
a
Tent
upon
the
Lord's
day
,
for
a
Fair
that
was
to
be
kept
upon
the
Munday
following
,
said
to
one
on
the
Saturday
,
that
they
would
rear
it
to
morrow
,
so
the
next
day
which
was
the
Lord's
day
,
being
drunk
,
he
d●ed
the
same
day
roaring
.
34.
In
June
1635.
on
the
Lord
s
day
,
the
Tapster
and
Chamberlain
of
the
Queens
head
in
Southwark
,
rid
into
Kent
to
be
merry
:
and
having
drunk
liberally
,
riding
homewards
,
the
one
of
them
fell
from
his
Horse
and
broke
his
neck
.
35.
Also
in
June
1635.
and
as
some
report
the
very
same
Lords
day
,
in
Southwark
,
at
the
Red
Lion
,
near
St.
George's
Church
in
the
Afternoon
,
a
man
with
another
sate
drinking
so
long
,
that
the
other
about
six
of
the
Clock
departing
,
fell
a
sleep
so
,
that
he
never
awaked
again
.
These
Examples
were
Collected
from
Beard's
Theater
of
God's
Judgments
,
and
the
Practise
of
Piety
.
36.
A
Noble
man
in
France
,
that
used
to
go
a
hunting
on
the
Sabbath
day
;
his
Wife
brought
forth
a
Child
with
a
Dogs
head
.
37.
At
Kinstat
in
France
,
a
covetous
Woman
used
on
the
Sabbath
day
to
dry
and
pill
Flax
,
and
would
not
be
warned
although
her
Flax
took
fire
two
several
Lord's
days
,
but
on
the
third
Sabbath
,
she
and
her
two
Children
were
burnt
to
death
.
38.
Some
in
France
at
their
Husbandry
upon
the
Sabbath
,
have
been
struck
with
Thunder
,
some
had
their
Bodies
and
Bones
burnt
with
visible
fire
,
and
consumed
to
ashes
;
Scaffold
at
Playes
on
the
Sabbath
day
have
fallen
,
and
many
have
been
wounded
;
some
killed
out
right
39.
In
1583.
at
Paris
Garden
,
upon
the
Sabbath
day
,
a
great
Company
were
gathered
to
behold
a
sort
of
Bear
baiting
,
the
Scaffold
suddainly
brake
,
and
Eight
were
slain
out-right
;
and
many
more
wounded
.
40.
A
Husbandman
grinding
Corn
upon
the
Lord's
day
,
had
his
Meal
burnt
to
Ashes
.
41.
Another
carrying
Corn
on
this
day
,
had
his
Barn
and
all
his
Corn
therein
burnt
with
fire
from
Heaven
.
42.
Stratford
upon
Avon
,
was
twice
on
the
same
day
twelve
month
(
being
the
Lord's
day
)
almost
consumed
with
fire
chiefly
for
prophaning
that
day
.
43.
The
Inhabitants
of
Tiverton
in
Devonshire
,
were
great
prophaners
of
this
day
,
of
which
their
godly
Minister
did
oft
admonish
them
;
and
not
long
after
his
death
,
on
the
●hird
of
April
1598.
By
a
suddain
fire
,
the
whole
Town
was
almost
consumed
,
to
the
number
of
400.
Houses
,
and
50.
Persons
in
the
Flames
.
44.
And
once
since
in
1612.
the
same
Town
was
almost
consumed
again
;
a
sure
token
of
God's
anger
.