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English politics during the mid 17th century included a group known as the Ranters. They reacted against the restraint of the Puritans by encouraging free love, smoking and swearing as a means to spiritual salvation. The Puritan dominated Parliament passed the Adultery Act and the Blasphemy Act 1650 to stop these excesses. Many Ranters were sent to prison and Jacob Bauthumley, who was convicted of writing a blasphemous treatise, had a hole bored through his tongue as punishment.
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