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New England's Sabbath day Is heaven-like still and pure, When Israel walks the way Up to the temple's door. The time we tell When there to come By beat of drum Or sounding shell.
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and in Norwalk the
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and at last the drum was beaten until 1704, when the Church got a bell. And the
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Drumber was paid, and well paid too for his
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Cervices, fourteen shillings a year of the town's money, and he was furnished a
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and the town supplied to him also the flax for the drum-cords which he wore out in the service of God. Johnson, in his
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Wonder Working Providence, tells of the Cambridge Church:
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Hearing the sound of a drum he was directed toward it by a broade beaten way; following this rode he demands of the next man he met what the signall of the drum ment; the reply was made they had as yet no Bell to call men to meeting and therefore made use of the drum. In 1638 a platform was made upon the top of the Windsor meeting-house
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Robert may have been a good drummer, but he proved to be a most reprehensible and disreputable citizen; in the local Court Records of August 1, 1648, we find a full report of an astounding occurrence in which he played an important part. Ten men, who Avere nearly all sea-faring men,--gay, rollicking sailors,--went to Bassctt's house and asked for strong drink. The magistrates had endeavored zealously, and in the main successfully, to prevent all intoxication in the community, and had forbidden the sale of liquor save in very small quantities. The church-drummer, however, wickedly unmindful of his honored calling, furnished to the sailors six quarts of strong liquor, with which they all, host and visitors, got prodigiously drunk and correspondingly noisy. The Court Record says:
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The miscarriage continued till betwixt tenn and eleven of the clock, to the great provocation of God, disturbance of the peace, and to such a height of disorder that strangers wondered at it. In the midst of the carousal the master of the pinnace called the boatswain
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Brother Loggerheads. This must have been a particularly insulting epithet, which no respectable boatswain could have been expected quietly to endure, for
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In his pain and terror the master called out,
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Hoe, the Watch! Hoe, the Watch!
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The Watch made hast and for the present stopped the disorder, but in his rage and distemper the boatswaine fell a-swearinge Wounds and Hart as if he were not only angry with men but would provoke the high and blessed God. The master of the pinnace, being freed from his fellow-combatant, returned to Basset's house--perhaps to tell his tale of woe, perhaps to get more liquor--and was assailed by the drummer with amazing words of
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in short, he was