Note 409 — Chapter XIV

According to Archbishop Islep's Constitutions (1362), the observance of the Lord's Day was to begin at Saturday vespers, like the feasts that have vigils.—Johnson's English Canons, ii. 426.

Eustace, abbot of Flay (1201), went beyond the Puritans in his Sabbatarianism, and sought to terrify people into a cessation of labour from three o'clock on Saturday afternoon until Monday sunrise, by relating all sorts of miracles. A woman, for weaving on Saturday afternoon, was struck dead with palsy; another woman, who kept her paste wrapped up in a cloth until Monday morning, found it then ready baked.—Johnson, ii. 95.