hich ought to be kept sacred, it is ordered by the whole
consent of this court, and if any brother of the said Company shall at
any time hereafter either by himself, servant, or substitute, tonse,
barb, or trim any person on the Lord's Day, in any Inn or other public
or private house or place, or shall go in or out of any such house or
place on the said day with instruments used for that purpose, albeit the
same cannot be positively proved, or made appear, but in case the Lord
Mayor for the time being shall upon good circumstances consider and
adjudge any such brother to have trimmed or barbed as is aforesaid, that
then any such offender shall forfeit and pay for every such offence
10s., one half to the Lord Mayor, and the other to the use of the said
Company, unless such brother shall voluntarily purge himself by oath to
the contrary; and the searchers of the said Company for the time being
are to make diligent search in all such as aforesaid public or private
places for discovery of such offenders."

The following abstract of an order of the Barber-Surgeons of Chester
shows that the members of the Company were strict Sabbatarians:--

"1680, seconde of July, ordered that no member of the Company or his
servant or apprentice shall trim any person on the Lord's Day commonly
called Sunday."

In the Corporation records of Pontefract under the year 1700 it is
stated: "Whereas divers complaints have been made that the barbers of
the said borough do frequently and openly use and exercise their
respective trades upon the Lord's Day in profanation thereof, and to the
high displeasure of Almighty God. To prevent such evil practices for the
future it is therefore ordered that no barber shall ... use or exercise
the trade of a barber within the borough of Pontefract upon the Lord's
Day, commonly called Sunday, nor shall trim or shave any person upon
that day, either publicly or privately." We have in the last clause an
indication of public shaving performed in the churchyard or the market
place.

The churchwardens of Worksop parish, Nottinghamshire, in 1729 paid
half-a-crown for a bond in which the barbers bound themselves "not to
shave on Sundays in the morning."

At a meeting of the barber-surgeons of Newcastle-on-Tyne held in 1742 it
was ordered that no one should shave on a Sunday, and that "no brother
should shave John Robinson till he pays what he owes to Robert Shafto."

The operation was in bygone Scotland pronounced