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The following abstract of an order of the Barber-Surgeons of Chester
shows that the members of the Company were strict Sabbatarians:--
"1680, seconde of July, ordered that no member of the Company or his
servant or apprentice shall trim any person on the Lord's Day commonly
called Sunday."
In the Corporation records of Pontefract under the year 1700 it is
stated: "Whereas divers complaints have been made that the barbers of
the said borough do frequently and openly use and exercise their
respective trades upon the Lord's Day in profanation thereof, and to the
high displeasure of Almighty God. To prevent such evil practices for the
future it is therefore ordered that no barber shall ... use or exercise
the trade of a barber within the borough of Pontefract upon the Lord's
Day, commonly called Sunday, nor shall trim or shave any person upon
that day, either publicly or privately." We have in the last clause an
indication of public shaving performed in the churchyard or the market
place.
The churchwardens of Worksop parish, Nottinghamshire, in 1729 paid
half-a-crown for a bond in which the barbers bound themselves "not to
shave on Sundays in the morning.
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