ECCLESIASTICAL BOYCOTTERS.
Mr Dnnckley, writing in the Manchester Weekly Times, has disinterred a “ magnificent specimen ” of the “great cursing ” in use in the Scottish Church in ancient times, which bears a curiously close analogy to the “ Boycotting ” of the present day. The curse itself would fill a column of the Times newspaper, and resembles in many respects the “ terrible curse ” pronounced upon the Jackdaw of Rheims in the “ Ingoldsby Legends.” After duly anathematising “ every ilk part of their body, from the top of their head to the sole of their feet, behind and before, within and without,” the priest issued the following decree of “ Boycotting ” against the offenders :—“ I forbid all Christian men or women to have any company with them—eating, drinking, speaking, praying, lying, going, standing, or in any other deed doing, under the pain of deadly sin. I discharge all bonds, acts, contracts, oaths, and obligations made to them by any person, either of la we, kindness, or man rent, so long as they sustain this cursing, so that no man bo bounden to them, and that they can be bounden to all men,”
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Patea Mail, 19 April 1881, Page 4
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186ECCLESIASTICAL BOYCOTTERS. Patea Mail, 19 April 1881, Page 4
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