From The English People on the Eve of Colonization : 1603-1630 (1954) by Wallace Notestein:
“The matter of the use of Sunday afternoon became presently a controversial one between Puritans and their opponents. In 1616 James I on his way down from Scotland was waited upon in Lancashire by a delegation of servants, laborers, and mechanics, who complained that they were estopped from all recreations on Sunday. James needed no coaxing to utter pronouncements and the chance to encourage Sunday sports was not to be resisted. The upshot was the Book of Sports authorizing the people to enjoy themselves on Sunday afternoon. It was ordered to be read in all churches … although here and there a daring [Puritan] clergyman failed to do so.”
So, we have King James to thank for NFL Football?
SIXES AND SEVENS. Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture is scattered about; or of a business left unsettled.
Now that I’m returning to the link soup model (see my 
So, my little experiment of setting aside the link soups in favor of just posting whenever I read something interesting? Yeah, that didn’t turn out so well. I would read something, tell myself to remember to blog about it, then forget to blog about it.