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Title: Walks & talks about historic Boston .
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mann, Albert William, 1841-
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Mann publishing co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Devonshire and Slate Streets in Boston, if not in America. There were some quaint oldlaws and customs in the Iuritan churches of those days. In1646 it was the custom of this Iirst Church to fine absen-tees froiu church service three shillings each. In these mod-ern davs when the audience rooms of churches arc made socomfortable in every way for the worshippers, we canscarcelv realize the hardships endured by church goers of ahundred years and more ago. The heating of an audienceroom in those days would have been considered an unneces-sarv expense. The services were unusually long, the ser-mons generally an hour or more in delivery, and through it J-l^ Walks and Talks About Ilisturic Bosfu)i. all the i)C(ii)k sal ami shivered. Lnder such a lest ui eiuliir-ance small boys grew restless and their elders grew sleepy.An attendant was always present to look after such cases.He walked up and down the aisle durinj;- the services armedwith a lon_o- ))oU. with a solid wooden h.all at one end.
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First Clmrch, 1G39 When he caught sigiit of a sleeper, he administered a vigor-ous tap on the offenders head, if a man, or boy, but in thecase of a woman he had a pole in which was a foxs tail, andthis he would draw across her face. Judge Sewall, in hisdiary, says, that one Sunday at the Old South Church, theworshippers w-ere so cold that their coughing interfered withthe sermon, and the Sacrament bread was frozen as hard aspebbles. In 1721 the Second Church was built on Hanover llalks and Talks About Historic Boston. 3^9 Street, and after that the Iirst Clmrcli was popuhirly knownas the Old I.rick. In 1760 there was another disastrous fire, and a.G:ain thecliurch edifice was destroyed. The Town House (()ld StateHouse) was also burned and more than 30 building-s. In1761 another church edifice arose from the ashes. OnMarch 5, 1770, the bell of the Old Brick Church gave w^arn-ing- to the citizens of the Boston Massacre. In March, 1776,after the siege of lioston, General Washington with

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