Stubbes

In 1583 the Puritan writer Philip Stubbes had this to say about dancing:

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It is perhaps fortunate for all concerned that Stubbes 'rather draconian correctives were never adopted.

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan."

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

A riotous Lord of Misrule at the Temple -- Stubbes on Lords of

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

A riotous Lord of Misrule at the Temple -- Stubbes on Lords of

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

There is an entertaining piece of cynical satire on the Goldsmiths in Stubbes '

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Stubbes explains how the goldsmith's shops are decked with chains and rings,

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

[Footnote 72: Probably the John Gladman spoken of by Stubbes (see p. 127).]

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

The "Lord of Misrule" was among the relics of paganism most violently attacked by Puritan writers like Stubbes and Prynne, and the

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Although Stubbes wrote with exceeding bitterness and party bias, he had some warrant for his diatribe.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton