These regulations were weak compared to those in Puritan New England. In
17th century Massachusetts healthy, able bodied people were required to
attend church serves ALL DAY on the Sabbath, usually involving 2-3 sermons
of 2-3 hours in length.
Twenty minutes every four months was weak beer for the Puritans. Save for
the fact I would have probably been a slave, I think I would have preferred
17th century VA over MA. (smile)
Harold S. Forsythe
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From: "Sunshine49" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: The beginning of the Episcopal Church
> I'm no expert, but I'd agree with you. I came across one mention of a
> law in early Va.- I don't know the date- that said a person had to go
> to church once every 4 months, and the sermon was not to exceed 20
> minutes. Maybe she is, like so many Americans, confusing Va. with
> Mass, or assuming all were the same. After the Va. church service
> people would gather to talk horse breeding, the price of crops, read
> the marriage notices and other community information posted at the
> courthouse, etc. It was a time to socialize and get caught up. Unlike
> in Mass, Virginia "plantations" were very far apart [and pretty self-
> contained], travel was a mess by land, the court days or church
> services or weddings and funerals were the main times people saw each
> other. While Va. had it's various religious laws, it was not set up
> as a religious colony as Mass was. She needs to do a little more
> research.
>
> Virginia was not Mass!! Arrgghhhh! I just finished reading William
> Kelso's newest book on the recent James Fort discoveries, and he said
> that with one exception, every religious relic they there found was
> Catholic. So while these first colonists may have been Anglican, they
> plainly still harbored Catholic feelings as well. They were not
> Puritanical religious zealots. Obviously, their religion was rather
> ambiguous. Or flexible.
>
> Nancy
>
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> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>
>> I appreciate all the responses to the question of the origin of the
>> Episcopal church. I will pass them on to the author of D'Arcy ....
>> Donna
>> Southall.
>>
>> Now, if I may, a question of the early Church services in
>> Jamestown. I've
>> always gotten the impression that they were a somewhat irreligious
>> group,
>> but in the book D'Arcy, she has the hero arriving by ship in time for
>> sabbath worship, that lasted many hours, and when he nodded off, he
>> was
>> clapped in the stocks for his transgression. The typical sabbath
>> was three
>> hours of preaching, a communal lunch, and back to church for two
>> more hours
>> of preaching. An awful lot of preaching that one cannot go to sleep
>> on!These
>> events, to me, sound more like the practices of the Puritans than the
>> Anglicans. Am I wrong?
>>
>> Anne
>>
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