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This Day in Boston History
December 7th, 1637
England's Good Influence
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On this day
the British Parliament successfully influenced the American Colony of
Massachusetts to suspended its Corporal Punishment Act of 1656, which
had imposed harsh penalties on Quakers and other religious Nonconformists,
such as Anne
Hutchinson.
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