 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1925 - 456 pages
...and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read perfectly the English tongue, and to get knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein. "Also, that all masters of families do, once a week at least, catechise their children and servants... | |
 | Orwin Bradford Griffin - Education - 1928 - 280 pages
...children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein; also, that all masters of families, do, once a week, at least catechise their children and servants,... | |
 | Baptists - 1841 - 682 pages
...servants and apprentices, so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." * The statute proceeds to provide for the religious education of children, servants and apprentices,... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1895 - 116 pages
...apprentices, so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and [obtain a] knowledge of the capital laws ; upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein.' Such was the idea of 'barbarism ' entertained by the colonists of Massachusetts Bay more than two centuries... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 540 pages
...children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws ; upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein. "Also, that all masters of families do once a week (at the least) catechize their children and servants... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 1370 pages
...children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them jierfec-tly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." This law was copied by Connecticut a few years later. It may or may not have been enforced for a time... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1903 - 566 pages
...and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read perfectly the English tongue and to get knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein. " 10 Five years later, November IT, 1647, that • The State in its relations to education, by Henry... | |
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... vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may... 
