 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
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...the County of Wiltshire, by Aubrey, at p. 32, is the following curious account of Whitsun-Ales : " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston St. Michael (no small parish) the ChurchAle of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 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... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Archaeology - 1855 - 450 pages
...the County of Wilts, by John Aubrey, Esq." l is the following curious account of Whitsun ales : — " There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's...but for Kington 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... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - Church management - 1857 - 704 pages
..."Whitsun Ale" itself was sometimes so called. Thus Aubrey (in the place before quoted) 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 Whitmin tide did the business." The first... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...the purpose of converting arable land into pasture — the very opposite to its usual object now. ' There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's...at Whitsuntide did the business.' ' In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and utensils for dressing provision. Here the... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...the purpose of converting arable land into pasture — the very opposite to its usual object now. ' There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's...at Whitsuntide did the business.' ' In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and utensils for dressing provision. Here the... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...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, 8cc. utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met, and were merry, and gave their charity.... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1861 - 338 pages
...Aubrey, in his account of North Wilts, has left us the following account of Whitsun Ales (temp. 1711): "There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's...but, for Kington 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... | |
 | Manchester (England). Court-Leet - Court records - 1864 - 250 pages
...poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston Saint 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, &o., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity.... | |
 | Manchester (England). Court-leet - Court records - 1864 - 246 pages
...but that somewhat still remaineth to cover the pm-se's bottom." Aubrey in his Wiltshire (p. 32) says: "There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ; but for Kingston Saint Michael (no small parish) tho Church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish... | |
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