| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1825 - 508 pages
...alms. Aubrey thus describes a Whitson Ale. " In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...alms. Aubrey thus describes a Whitson Ale. " In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...alms. Aubrey thus describes a Whitson Ale. " In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, See. the ancients sitting gravely by,... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 pages
...by alms. Aubrey thus describes a Whitsun Ale. " In every parish was a churchhouse, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...alms. Aubrey thus describes a Whitson Ale. " In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| George Oliver - 1836 - 226 pages
...secular uses. Aubrey says, " in every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crockes, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients gravely sitting by and... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...'"*• for making the angel (tkurificanti») г">-1пг, and ii*. ii*. for cords of it — all on longed spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| William Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...rendered innocent by alms. " In every parish," says Aubrey, " was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the house-keepers met. The young people were there too; and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, etc., the ancients sitting gravely by,... | |
| William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...thus describes a Whitson Ale. " In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crock*, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and... | |
| Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 512 pages
...description of a Whitsun-ale is, that " in every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crooks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by and... | |
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