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...later kings found it best not to. Its growing popularity was nevertheless disagreeable to many people and in the seventeenth century Sir Thomas Mildman writes: "In likewise foote ball is too utterly abjected of all noble men, wherein is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence, whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes in his "Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England" mentions "foote ball playing and other devilishe pastimes" which were played on Sunday. Among his words on foot ball are these: "For dooth not everyone...
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