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Sunday Observance Act 1627

Great Britain Parliament

[3 Charles . I. c. 1] Sunday Observance Act, 1627

Prohibited travel by carriers with horses, waggons, carmen, wainmen and drovers with cattle, as well as the killing or felling of animals by butchers on Sunday.

[1627] " An Act for the Further Reformation of Sundry Abuses committed on the Lord's Day, Commonly called Sunday," in vol. 4 of The Statutes at Large of England and Great-Britain (London, 1811;Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks) 788-9.

Forasmuch as the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday, is much broken and profaned by Carriers, Wagoners, Carters, Wain-men, Butchers and Drovers of Cattle, to the great Dishonour of God, and Reproach of Religion:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, and Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, [Carrier, &c. travelling. ]That no Carrier with any Horse or Horses, nor Waggon-men with any Waggon or Waggons, nor Carmen with any Cart or Carts, nor Wain-man with any Wain or Wains, nor Drovers with any Cattle, shall after Forty Days next after the End of this present Session of Parliament, by themselves, or any other, travel upon the said Day, [Penalty.] upon Pain that every Person and Person so offending shall lose and forfeit Twenty Shillings for every such Offence: [Butchers feeling or killing.] Or if any Butcher, by himself or any other for him by his Privity or Consent, shall, after the End of the said Forty Days, kill or fell any Victual upon the said Day, [Penalty.] that then every such Butcher shall forfeit and lose for every such Offence the Sum of Six Shillings and Eight Pence…