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Old and New London
… of Scripture by one of the community appointed for a week for the purpose. There was a collation or spiritual … rose two hours after midnight to say office; and every week the Psalter was sung through. All left the church at a …
Old and New London
… year at the election time, which is always in Rogation week, i.e., the second week before Whitsuntide. It is conducted by "challenges," as … one of the prebendaries, who was to be paid twenty pence a week for his expenses. On one occasion, in Elizabeth's reign, …
Old and New London
… admitted. Educational classes were held three times a week, and lectures, free to members and their families, were … on Sunday evenings. A penny bank was opened three nights a week, and in six months from the commencement, a labour loan … sick benefit society attached, formed by paying a penny a week, the use of a room for the temperance meetings being …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rents at Martinmas. The half-virgaters ploughed ½ a. each week and performed one work between Michaelmas and 1 August, … but for August and September worked on five days each week when required, carried with pack animals ( summagium) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by steam with Cherbourg, on the coast of France, twice a week. An act was passed in 1846 for making a line called the …