About half the women in London were literate by 1700.
In 1645, the marshalls of the admiralty and five major ports were
ordered to search all ships for stolen children since it had been
a problem in London.
The elderships of the church were given power in 1645 to suspend
from the sacrament of the Lord's Supper all ignorant and
scandalous persons. Ignorance was lack of knowledge that there is
a God and this is the one true God we worship, that this God is
one, yet three persons" Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that God
created man in his own image, that all have sinned and therefore
shall die, that there is one mediator between God and man: Jesus
Christ, who died on the cross to save men from their sins, that he
rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand
of God, and intercedes for us, that Christ and his benefits are
applied only by faith, that the souls of the faithful live with
Christ in blessedness, that non-believers and non-repenters shall
perish eternally, that the sacraments are baptism and communion,
and that the is a judgment day on which the righteous will be
given life eternal and the wicked shall receive everlasting
punishment. Scandalous persons are those who blasphemously speak
or write anything of God, his holy work or the sacraments; an
incestuous person; an adulterer; a fornicator; a drunkard; a
profane swearer or cursor; a murderer; a worshipper of images,
crosses, crucifixes, relics, saints, or angels; makers of images
of the trinity; one who professes not to be in charity with his
neighbor; any challenging another to fight or accepting such
challenge; on the Lord's day, dancing, dicing, cards, masking,
wake, shooting, bowling, football, wrestling, plays, interludes,
fencing, bullbaiting, bearbaiting, hawking, hunting, coursing,
fishing, fowling, selling wares, travel without reasonable cause;
brothel-house keeper, one who solicits the chastity of another;
one who consents to the marriage of his child to a Papist or
marries a Papist; own who goes for advice to a witch, wizard,
fortune-teller; assault his parents, or any magistrate, minister,
or elder in the execution of his office; one attainted of
barratry, forgery, extortion, or bribery.
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