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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… desired yearly, when they come to S. Paul's churchyard on Christmas Day to wait upon the Mayor and Aldermen according … say that a, distribution of coal takes place annually on Christmas Eve, at a cost of nearly 9 l., including the above … to be given to the poor on All Saints' Day, and two about Christmas. This is supposed to be the origin of a payment of …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… wife to provide the aforesaid John with one furred robe at Christmas annually, and to maintain the aforesaid Agnes for …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Colchirch and S. Michael le Quern. Dated London, Monday, Christmas Eve, A.D. 1348. Roll 77 (179) Pulteney 55 (John … after the decease of the said Isabella. Dated at Holborne, Christmas Eve, A.D. 1348. Roll 77 (268). Astwod (Roger de), …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of his soul. Dated Saturday, " quatuor temporum" 8 before Christmas, A.D. 1365. Roll 94 (66). Monday next after the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… are also to distribute a certain quantity of coal at Christmas among the poor of the parish of S. Mary aforesaid. … of the company, the same being distributed the week before Christmas. Dated 16 December, A.D. 1555. Roll 249 (67). 3 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… must provide himself with a gown before the following Christmas to attend the mayor in church on pain of expulsion …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to the Protestant poor of the parish just before Christmas every year. 22 A similar bequest of 200 in the will …
A History of the County of Somerset
… by will dated 1906, left a sum of money to provide a Christmas coal distribution for poor members of the Church of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… masters of the several mints to assemble at Winchester, on Christmas-day in 1125, to investigate the state of the coin, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and kitchen and the small offices 'against this instant Christmas when the king will be there.' 21 It was at this …