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A rare and fascinating book on the evils of having a haircut or trim on Sundays.

Richard Hamersley or Hammersley (d.1733). ‘Advice to Sunday barbers against trimming on the Lord’s Day. Shewing them the evil of that great sin that they line in, by breaking God’s Holy Law, and strict command; by trimming thereon, which is no work of mercy, nor case of necessity; and therefore ought not to be done. Remember the sabbath Day to keep it Holy, Exo. 20.8

Richard Hamersley was a barber surgeon active in Walsall, Staffordshire, in the first third of the eighteenth century. He is best known for the publication of two works arguing for strict observation of the sabbath including trimming on the Lord’s Day. In 1726, he was granted administration of the will of his son Richard, a brassfounder, at Wolverhampton. Hamersley was buried at Walsall on 22 May 1733

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