Since Sneaky's not around: King James VI and I (i.e. Sixth and First - I wasn't one of the authors) wrote a treatise deploring a particular practice. A quote to give the flavour:
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Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the markes and notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned.
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What was the foul practice he was condemning?