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Testimony against prophane customs: namely, health drinking, dicing, cards, Christmas-keeping, New Year's gifts, cock-scaling, saints' days, etc.

Title
Testimony against prophane customs: namely, health drinking, dicing, cards, Christmas-keeping, New Year's gifts, cock-scaling, saints' days, etc. Reprinted from the 1687 ed., with an introd. and notes by William Peden, and a bibliographical note by Lawrence Starkey.
Author
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Publication
Charlottesville, Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1953.

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  • Peden, William (William Harwood), 1913-1999.
  • Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  • Tracy W. McGregor Library.
Description
59 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • "Three hundred copies have been printed, of which two hundred are for sale."
  • The 1687 ed. has title: A testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs, now practised by some in New-England. London, 1687.
Call Number
YFQ (Mather, I. Testimony against prophane customs)
LCCN
53007134
OCLC
2882451
Author
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Title
Testimony against prophane customs: namely, health drinking, dicing, cards, Christmas-keeping, New Year's gifts, cock-scaling, saints' days, etc. Reprinted from the 1687 ed., with an introd. and notes by William Peden, and a bibliographical note by Lawrence Starkey.
Imprint
Charlottesville, Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1953.
Added Author
Peden, William (William Harwood), 1913-1999.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs, now practised by some in New England.
Tracy W. McGregor Library.
Research Call Number
YFQ (Mather, I. Testimony against prophane customs)
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