[Anon.], ‘Report Delivered to the Society For the Suppression of Sunday Wakes’, British Magazine (1839)

In delivering in this report respecting the evils of Sunday wakes, I would beg first to observe, that many circumstances have occurred which have contributed to render it imperfect, and very deficient to what I had hoped to have attained, and therefore I must beg the indulgence of the committee, and especially request them to bear in mind the very unpleasant and often revolting nature of that duty which necessarily accompanies any statistical inquiry into the amount or degree of human crimes and offences. I have been enabled to / visit personally some of the parishes in which Sunday wakes or feasts are held, and to gain, through correspondence with the clergyman only, sketches of such proceedings in others. In order to facilitate answers, I have generally proposed such questions as the following:–