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...lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when Amanda Prentis hurdled the high notes of The Star Spangled Banner...
Many of the packs have historical significance. In one very valuable set issued in 1680 the identification characters at the top are all but crowded out by wood cut illustrations of the suppression of the "horrid.. popish plot" of 1679. One of the pictures shows the hanging of five Jesuit priests and another a public book burning. Another set, made at Brianville in 1667, carries the hand made coat of arms of a noble French family...
Pepys naturally made plenty of enemies, and they used the Popish Plot conspiracy of Titus Gates to get even with him. Accused of implication in a political murder, he was arrested, imprisoned in the Tower, faced with trial for his life. With characteristic energy he methodically tracked down every piece of false evidence, finally cleared himself. In building up his hero Biographer Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted...
...time the building was completed in 1840, the dazed Corporation of Trinity found itself possessed of a brownstone building embracing such popish symbols as a cross on the steeple and a deep chancel, and Richard Upjohn was the most famed architect in the U. S. Such a business in parish churches did Richard Upjohn & sons do that it has been said that if all the Upjohn churches from New York to Buffalo should be simultaneously fired at no point between the two cities would the smoke of the steeples be out of sight...
...wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon ye bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once mutilated the English flag in order to destroy the "Popish" cross of St. George. Captain George Curwen, who in 1651 was licensed to sell "strong water" in Salem, scowled from a cracking canvas. He once remarked: "As a man dresses, so is he esteemed." He dressed well until he died in 1684, a rich property owner. Governor Thomas Dudley's face...