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The wretched freeholders summoned to the Shire Court from farm and cattle, from mill or anvil or carpenter's bench, knew well the terrors of the journey through marsh and fen and forest, the dangers of flood and torrent, and perhaps of outlawed thief or murderer, the privations and hardships of the way; and the heavy fines which occur in the king's rolls for non-attendance show how anxiously great numbers of the suitors avoided joining in the troublesome and thankless business of the court.
The oppression of the Catholic gentry was limited to an exaction, more or less rigorous at different times, of the fines for recusancy or non-attendance at public worship. The work of bloodshed was reserved wholly for priests, and under Elizabeth this work was done with a ruthless energy which for the moment crushed the Catholic reaction.
To my great amusement I heard later that his elder daughters, trained in strictest observance of all Church ceremonies, had much discussed my non-attendance at the Sacrament, and had finally arrived at the conclusion that I had committed some deadly sin, for which the humble work which I undertook at their house was the appointed penance, and that I was excluded from "the Blessed Sacrament" until the penance was completed!
There was a small fine for non-attendance at church, but even this was rarely levied, and by the confession of the Jesuits the Queen's policy was succeeding too well. Sensible men began to see that the differences of religion were not things to quarrel over. Faith was growing languid.
That of course you could not but be affected anything else would have been wholly unnatural in a man of your gentle nature but that the cause of your non-attendance at our college meeting was illness, not melancholy. Laelius. Thanks, Scaevola! You are quite right; you spoke the exact truth.
They were excommunicated in the Bishop's Court or fined for non-attendance at church; and a crowd of informers grew up who made a trade of detecting the meetings they held at midnight. Alleyn, the author of the well-known "Alarm to the Unconverted," died at thirty-six from the sufferings he endured in Taunton Gaol.
In fact, as the fines were very moderate for instance, I believe it was only half a crown for being absent from the field days, and not even that if there were a reasonable excuse for non-attendance they did not inspire the members with much dread. This was the only punishment for non-attendance.
In less earthly matters, too, such as non-attendance at church, a predisposition to poaching, or any inclination to moral laxity, he could say with a clear conscience that the Rector was sure of his support.
It must be remembered, on the contrary, that a great amount of non-attendance at school is due to the employment of children especially in rural districts, where the members of School Boards are often the very people who extract most profit from child labour. A prison chaplain of great experience, the Rev.
The parish poor and the parish church derived an uncertain, but by no means negligible, income from the product of Fines for various Delinquencies. In the previous chapter fines for non-attendance at church have been alluded to. A contemporary, writing in 1597, refers to these as an important fund for the support of the poor if duly levied.
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