Note 436 — Chapter XIV

The following is extracted from the biography of John Bruen.—Nonconformity in Cheshire, 56:—

"Master Done being young and youthly, yet very tractable, could not well away with the strict observation of the Lord's Day, whereupon we did all conspire to do him good, ten of my family speaking one after another, and myself last, for the sanctifying of the Lord's Day. After which he did very cheerfully yield himself; blessed be God." ... "I [John Bruen] coming once into his chamber and finding over the mantel-piece a pair of new cards, nobody being there I opened them, and took out the four knaves and burnt them, and so laid them together again; and so for want of such knaves his gaming was marred, and never did he play in my house, for aught I ever heard, any more." Puritans played at billiards, bowls, and shuffle-board.—See Newcome's Diary.