 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 Seiten
...the business.' ' In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met...were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at the butts, &c., the ancients .sitting gravely... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 918 Seiten
...did the business. In every parish there was a church-house, to which belonged spits, pots, crocks, &c. for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers...their charity. The young people came there too, and hud dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. Mr. A. Wood assures me, there were few or no alms-houses... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 348 Seiten
...Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers...were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there, too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. ; the ancients sitting gravely by,... | |
 | Manchester (England). Court-Leet - 1864 - 250 Seiten
...business. In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &o., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met...were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had daneing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the aneients sitting gravely by and... | |
 | 1868 - 510 Seiten
...belonged spits, polls, and other articles for dressing provisions. Here, on occasions, the householders met and were merry, and gave their charity; the young...too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, and other amusements. In fact, say what you may in disparagement of the old times, it had its advantages... | |
 | 1868 - 222 Seiten
...every parish is (or was) a church-house to which belonged spits, crocks, and utensils for cooking. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity ; the young people were there too, and -had dancing, bowling, and shooting at butts, etc., the ancients sitting gravely... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1868 - 284 Seiten
...is, or was, a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, etc., utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, etc. ; the ancients sitting gravely by... | |
 | Nehemiah Wallington - 1869 - 380 Seiten
...page 54." In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met...were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by,... | |
 | William Keatinge Clay - 1869 - 522 Seiten
...Antiquities*: — In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met, and were merry, and gave their charity. The house, not being always wanted by the inhabitants, was let, and the rent brought into the parish account.... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 380 Seiten
...says, ' In every parish is (or was) a Church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity.' But though these Church-houses became general, the wakes and minor revels continued to be held within... | |
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In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at... 
