Virginia House of Burgesses (1668) ordinance of Jamestown:
<The 27th of August appointed for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, to implore God's mercy: if any person be found upon that day gaming, drinking, or working (works of necessity excepted), upon presentment by church-wardens and proof, he shall be fined one hundred pounds of tobacco.> 1668VA001
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Endnotes:
1668VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Ordinances, 1668, of the House of Burgesses, Jamestown. Benjamin Franklin Morris The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Philadelphia, PA: L. Johnson & Co., 1863; George W. Childs, 1864), p. 233.