"Master Done being young and youthly, yet very tractable, could not well away with the strict observation of the Lord's Day, whereupon we did all conspire to do him good, ten of my family speaking one after another, and myself last, for the sanctifying of the Lord's Day. After which he did very cheerfully yield himself; blessed be God." ... "I [John Bruen] coming once into his chamber and finding over the mantel-piece a pair of new cards, nobody being there I opened them, and took out the four knaves and burnt them, and so laid them together again; and so for want of such knaves his gaming was marred, and never did he play in my house, for aught I ever heard, any more." Puritans played at billiards, bowls, and shuffle-board.—See Newcome's Diary.
[437] A curious description of the prevalent fashions of the day is found in Fox's Journal, i. 274:—
People "must be in the fashion of the world, else they are not in esteem; else they shall not be respected, if they have not gold or silver upon their backs, or if the hair be not powdered. But if he have store of ribands hanging about his waist, and at his knees, and in his hat, of divers colours, red, white, black, or yellow, and his hair be powdered, then he is a brave man; then he is accepted, he is no Quaker, because he hath ribands on his back, and belly, and knees, and his hair powdered. This is the array of the world. But is not this from the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, or the pride of life? Likewise the women having their gold, their patches on their faces, noses, cheeks, foreheads; having their rings on their fingers, wearing gold, having their cuffs double, under and above, like unto a butcher with his white sleeves; having their ribands tied about their hands, and three or four gold laces about their clothes, this is no Quaker, say they. This attire pleaseth the world; and if they cannot get these things, they are discontented."
[438] Bastwick, quoted in Hanbury's Memorials, iii. 81.
[439] Whitelocke's Memorials, 628.
[440] Oldmixon's History of England, 426.
"I knew them both," he says, "and heard this story told when Mrs. White was present, who did not contradict it, but owned there was something in it."
[441] Rogers' Life of Howe, 69, 72.
[442] Mr. John Nelson, father of "the pious Robert Nelson," dying in 1657, having "a distaste" "for the intruding ministry of the time," requested to be "privately buried by an orthodox minister in the evening."—Nelson's Life, by Secretan, p. 2.
[443] Harl. MSS., 5176, 15, quoted in Lyson's Environs, i. 42.