some point of religion, as should
seem by his bringing his bible under his arm.

Thomas Maule was a Quaker who lived in Essex Street, Salem, on the
spot now occupied by James B. Curwen, Esq., as a residence.

Imported books were ordered to be burned in Boston as early as 1653,
by command of the General Court; but we believe this is the first
instance of burning an American book.

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Punishment for wearing long hair in New England. From an old Salem
paper.

PURITANICAL ZEAL. It is known that there was one of the statutes
in our ancestors' code which imposed a penalty for the wearing of
long hair. At the time Endicott was the magistrate of this town
he caused the following order to be passed:--

"John Gatshell is fyened ten shillings for building upon the
town's ground without leave; and in case he shall cutt of his
loung hair of his head in to sevill frame (fewell flame?) in the
meane time, shall have abated five shillings his fine, to be
paid in to the Towne meeting within two months from this time,
and have leave to go in his building in the meantime."

Purchas says of long hair that--

"It is an ornament to the female sex, a token of subjection, an
ensign of modesty; but modesty grows short in men as their hair
grows long, and a neat perfumed, frizled, pouldered bush hangs
but as a token,--_vini non vendibilis_, of much wine, little wit,
of men weary of manhood, of civility, of christianity, which
would faine turn (as the least doe imitate) American salvages,
infidels, barbarians, or women at the least and best."

Prynne, who wrote in 1632, considers men who nourish their hair like
women, as an abomination to the Lord, and says--

"No wonder that the wearing of long haire should make men
abominable unto God himselfe, since it was an abomination even
among heathen men. Witnesse the examples of Heliogabalus,
Sardanapalus, Nero, Sporus, Caius Caligula, and others."

He refers to the opinions of the fathers and the decrees of the Old
Councils to prove that--

"Long hair and love locks are bushes of vanity whereby the Devil
leads and holds men captive."

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In a Boston paper, Aug. 11, 1789, we find the following ludicrous
account of the unfaithfulness of an officer in the duty of whipping
a culprit:--

On Thursday, 11 culprits