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… Philadelphia Dancing Assembly a desideratum. Founded in 1749, the Assembly thrived, even into the early Federal period. Rules governing all aspects of participation, including the dancing itself, sustained the Assembly’s role in determining … Assembly more strictly than those of London or Bath , governing its meetings, management, tickets, and more. Rules were occasionally reinforced, perhaps to bolster managers’ authority against more democratic portions of the young … century; rather, attendees ‘moved with measured dignity in grave minuets or gayer country dances.’ 7   Assembly rules required that each set, formed in order of dancers’ arrival, have ten couples; if a set came up short, its couples …

… The creation of Methodist societies was fundamental to Wesley's projects and ideas, and he carefully elaborated rules and regulations so as to bett er organise the social and religious life of his followers. 4 The regular meetings … discipline as those who did not abide by them could be expelled. ‘If there be any among us who observe them not [the rules], who habitually break any one of them, let it be made known unto them who watch over that soul, as they that must … repent not, he hath no more place among us. We have delivered our own souls.’ (Wesley, The Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies , 73) Moreover, the Methodist connection was quickly divided into ‘ the United Societies, …