OLD-TIME FAST-DAYS
After the Reformation Saturday continued to be observed as a fast-day in England, but to encourage the fishing industry by inducing "the more comon eatinge Of fishe." Parliament in tho fifth year of Elizabeth enacted that thenceforth "every Wednesday in every weeke throughout the whole yero which heretofore hath not by the lawes and custodies of 'this Bealme beeno used and observed as a faste day"—exceprrug the Wednesdays in Christinas and B'ister weeks—should be kept and observed "as Saturdayes in every week be, or oiisht to be"—that is to say, that "no manner of person", should cat "flesshe" on that clay. The penalty for each offence was fixed at three pounds, or, in default, three months' "close imprisonment"; while householders who did not inform against transgressors in their households were liable to a penn'tv of two pounds. Tho fine, when inflicted, was to bo divided into H™ narls—o-'e part to go bo the Queen, one to tho informer, and n tliird to tho poor of t'he parish in which the offence was committed. Exemption from the act was to be had- h; paying for it, the nrioo varying according to Hio social standing of the applicant.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 6
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198OLD-TIME FAST-DAYS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 6
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