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A History of the County of Lancaster
… of 18601, two patens of the same date, and a silver bread-box given by Archdeacon Blackburne. One of the patens …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… crop. . . . The poor of Cartmel parish ate no kind of bread but oatcake; neither was any beef killed except at … benefactors under four headsfor the poor, apprenticing, bread and sundries. 126 The poor's money is divided among the … for the poor, given in doles at Christmas, and 1 6 s. in bread, from the gifts of James Simpson (1687) and others 136; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of 2 10 s. on a field in Doe Park for a distribution of bread every Sunday to the poor of the parish. This was in … William Part of Hale by will in 1753 left 100 to found a bread charity at Hale chapel, and another 100 for money or … to be given to boys. These charities are intact, but the bread distribution has been discontinued and the money is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Church, Chipping, Easter 1876.' There is also a bread-holder. The registers begin in 1559. The first two …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… of the Prior, who goes about the country begging for his bread; while the alms, charities, and divine services which …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… less than this. John Hough in 1721 left 52 for a dole of bread every Lord's day at the parish church of Croston, to … housekeepers, &c. George Norris in 1740 gave 26 for a bread dole to poor persons of Croston attending divine … of them, 4 10 s. 10 d. a year being now reserved for bread distributed in church every Sunday afternoon by the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was a curious custom called the Arval. A full meal of bread and cheese and ale was served at the house of mourning … was allowed the vicarage-house, the churchyard, tithes of bread and ale, the candles offered at Candlemas, and a yearly … who was to preach a sermon on Easter Monday, and half for bread to poor housekeepers of Dalton Town attending service …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Of the whole charge 7 10 s. was for education; 3 10 s. for bread, linen, &c., for the poor, and 1 to the curate of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… coats or gowns,' and half on a Sunday distribution of bread. The rent-charge is still operative, and the … is shared by all the townships of the ancient parish, the bread is practically restricted to Eccleston and Heskin, the … 'the prevailing practice to send children to receive the bread.' Hugh Dicconson in 1683 left 50 for six coats of blue …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in law expenses. Peter Gregory, before 1786, left 10 for bread for the Urmston poor; land, now called Manchet Field, … remainder produces 4. a year. A monthly distribution of bread is made at the church; attendance at the service is not … to 1899, as it was thought that no further distribution of bread was required. Richard Newton in 1800 left 100 towards …