The following is a note to Chapter 5 of the author's Navvyman.
In 1803, The Society for the Suppression of Vice took it ill that men worked on Sundays on the London Dock. They wrote to the Bishop. 'If you could find out the pricipal conditions of the work and state civilly to them my disapprobation and your own of this infringement of the rest and sanctity of Sabbath it would probably put a stop to it,' the Bishop instructed an underling.
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