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Actually, no. the Treason Act makes it an offence to do any act with the intention of deposing a monarch, and Royal Mail says putting a stamp upside down does not fulfill that criterion.
It was only illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in 1644 as that day was legally mandated as a fast day.
[19 December, 1644.]
Public notice to be given for observation of Monthly Fast till further order.; And on the next day, being Christmas Day, in particular.
¶Whereas some doubts have been raised whether the next Fast shall be celebrated, because it falleth on the day which heretofore was usually called the feast of the Nativity of our Saviour. The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe order and ordaine that publique notice be given that the Fast appointed to be kept on the last Wednesday in every moneth ought to be observed untill it be otherwise ordered by both Houses of Parliament: And that this day in particular is to be kept with the more solemne humiliation, because it may call to remembrance our sinnes, and the sinnes of our forefathers, who have turned this Feast, pretending the memory of Christ into an extreame forgetfulnesse of him, by giving liberty to carnall and sensuall delights, being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth, and to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take a humane life, and to lay it down againe.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour.
It is illegal to be drunk on licensed premises.
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(06-06-2020, 02:41 PM)Neffa Wrote: It’s treasonous to put a stamp on an envelope upside down.
It’s illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Actually, no. the Treason Act makes it an offence to do any act with the intention of deposing a monarch, and Royal Mail says putting a stamp upside down does not fulfill that criterion.
It was only illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in 1644 as that day was legally mandated as a fast day.
[19 December, 1644.]
Public notice to be given for observation of Monthly Fast till further order.; And on the next day, being Christmas Day, in particular.
¶Whereas some doubts have been raised whether the next Fast shall be celebrated, because it falleth on the day which heretofore was usually called the feast of the Nativity of our Saviour. The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe order and ordaine that publique notice be given that the Fast appointed to be kept on the last Wednesday in every moneth ought to be observed untill it be otherwise ordered by both Houses of Parliament: And that this day in particular is to be kept with the more solemne humiliation, because it may call to remembrance our sinnes, and the sinnes of our forefathers, who have turned this Feast, pretending the memory of Christ into an extreame forgetfulnesse of him, by giving liberty to carnall and sensuall delights, being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth, and to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take a humane life, and to lay it down againe.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour.
It is illegal to be drunk on licensed premises.
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