Several Royalist broadsides (published songs) accuse the Puritans of preaching from a ‘tub’.
What does this exactly mean? Did they take baths and preach at the same time?
“And teach a Lecture out of a Tub,” --Protecting Brewer, from Rump Songs, 1662
“Cursing from his sweating tub the Cavaliers to Beelzebub” (from Old Song on Oliver’s Court)
“Some for a church, and some a tub, and some for both together;
And some, perhaps the greater part, have no regard for either.”
–tale of the Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray