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What a severe punishment for so purely verbal an offence! New England ideas of profanity were very rigid, and New England men had reason to guard well their temper and tongue, else that latter member might be bored with a hot iron; for such was the penalty for profanity. We know what horror Mr. Tomlins's wicked profanity,
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Curse ye woodchuck! caused in Lynn meeting, and Mr. Dexter was
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I'll pledge my friends, and for my foes A plague for their heels, and a poxe for their toes.
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In 1640, in Springfield, Goody Gregory, being grievously angered, profanely abused an annoying neighbor, saying,
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Before God I coulde breake thy heade! But she acknowledged her
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was deprived of the privilege of bringing his children to be baptized, and was thus spiritually punished for a very worldly offence. For some offences, such as
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as was done in Plymouth,
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as did an Andover man; and also for absenting one's self from church services; for
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for spoiling hides when tanning and refusing explanation thereof; for selling short weight in grain, for being
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Slanndering, for being a
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church-members were not only fined and punished but were deprived of partaking of the sacrament. In the matter of lying great distinction was made as to the character and effect of the offence. George Crispe's wife, who
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was simply admonished and remonstrated with. Will Randall, who told a
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was fined ten shillings. While Ralph Smith, who
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and the members were specially
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so his daily and even his family life was made wretched. And as it was not necessary to wait for the action of the church to pronounce excommunication, but the