Saxon Tithing-Men in America: Read Before the American Antiquarian Society, October 21, 1881 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Adams, Herbert B.

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ISBN 10: 1332193129 ISBN 13: 9781332193127

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Saxon Tithing-Men in America: Read Before the American Antiquarian Society, October 21, 1881

The office of Tithingman has never been satisfactorily explained. New England traditions describe this institution only in its later ecclesiastical form, which was by no means its primitive character even in this country. The oldest people in New England remember the Tithingman as a kind of Sunday Constable, whose special duty it was, in the old parish meeting-house, to quiet the restlessness of youth and to disturb the slumbers of age. Many are the tales which grandfathers can tell concerning this ancient watchman of the congregation, who saw to it that all persons were attentive except himself, and who occasionally broke the peace by sharply rapping with his tune-book and pointing at some whispering boy, or else by patrolling the aisles to arouse sleeping saints by means of his black pole, tipped at one end with brass.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332193129
• ISBN 13: 9781332193127
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32