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in meeting from his manly seat with the grown men, and force him to sit again with the boys;
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Not only could these men of authority keep the boys in order during meeting, but they also had full control during the nooning, and repressed and restrained and vigorously corrected the luckless boys during the midday hours. When seats in the galleries grew to be regarded as inferior to seats and pews on the ground floor, the boys, who of course must have the worst place in the house, were relegated from the pulpit stairs to pews in the gallery, and these square, shut-off pews grew to be what Dr. Porter called
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No child under 10 alowed to go up Gailary. In the Sutherland church, if the big boys (who ought to have known better)
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one of the tithing-men who
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was ordered
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with the small boys. In Plainfield, Connecticut, the
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boys managed to invent a new form of annoyance,--they
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and a church regulation had to be passed to prevent, or rather to try to prevent them from
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It was doubtless hot work scuffling and wrestling in the close, shut-in pews high up under the roof, and they naturally wished to cool down by opening or breaking the windows. Grown persons could not inconsiderately open the church windows either.
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The Constables are desired to _take notic_ of the persons that open the windows in the tyme of publick worship.