 There were no rates for the poor in -my grandfather's days; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish is (or was) a church-house to which belonged spits, crocks, &c. utensils for dressing...  Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects - Page 208by John Aubrey - 1857 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...commonly gripe so much, but that somewhat stil remayneth to cover the purse's bottom."* Another says, " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did ihe business. In every parish... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...commonly gripe so much, but that somewhat stil remayneth to cover the purse's bottom."* Another says, ;' There were no rates for the poor in -my grandfather's days; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...commonly gripe so much, but that somewhat stil rernayneth to cover the purse's bottom."* Another says, " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...prince's service." And Aubrey, in his account of Wiltshire, written in the reign of Charles II., says, "There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish), church ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...scene of a Whitsun-Ale at Bidford. Aubrey has given a sensible account of such a festivity : — " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the Church-Ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...grounds. Then were a world of labouring people maintained by the plough, as yet in Northamptonshire, &c. There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish} the church-ale at Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | Rites and ceremonies - 1848 - 452 pages
...Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 68 ; cited in Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. I. p. 157. 1714.] " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston S. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | 1848 - 452 pages
...Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 68 ; cited in Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. I. p. 157. [446] 1714.] " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston S. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1849 - 366 pages
...in Northamptonshire, &c. There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale at Whitsuntide...was, a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, fyc., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity.... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1849 - 364 pages
...the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the church- ale at Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish is,...was, a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, S^c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity.... | |
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