 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 332 pages
...middle of the town, has a stone tower embattled, and containing five bells. Here has been a custom at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister, as an offering. Upon a decayed monument, against the wall of the church, are the following... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 pages
...Hundred, in Morant's Essex, i. 219, is the following remark: " Here has heen a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering. This is observed by Mr. Lewis in his History of the Isle of Thanet, where... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...met with the following, which is quite new to me : — " Here has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a Woman, for her to give a white cambrick handkerchief to the Minister as an offering. This is No doubt the custom has long since fallen... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...just met with the following, which is quite new to me :— " Here has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a Woman, for her to give a white cambrick handkerchief to the Minister an an offering. This is observed by Mr. Lewis, In his ' Account... | |
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...quote a passage from Morant's ' Essex.' ' In Denton Church there has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering.' The same custom is kept up in Kent, as may be seen in Lewis's History of... | |
 | William Palin - 1871 - 258 pages
...Who audits the accounts ? Who sees them ? Morant says, " Here has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering ; this is observed by Mr. Lewis in his account of the Isle of Thanet, where... | |
 | William Palin - 1871 - 254 pages
...Who audits the accounts ? Who sees them ? Morant says, " Here has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering; this is observed by Mr. Lewis in his account of the Isle of Thanet, where... | |
 | 1884 - 410 pages
...it, and retained as part of the clothing till the churching of the mother, who, in the first Pruyer Book of Edward VI., is directed to present it to the...; there is one at Southfleet, Kent, and another at Stoke-et-Aberuoun, Surrey. Curiously enough, the inscription in each instance begins with the common... | |
 | 1897 - 1030 pages
...quote a passage from Morant's " Essex :" " In Denton Church there has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering." The same custom is kept up in Kent, as may be seen in Lewis's History of... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 pages
...Essex, in the account of Dunton Church, occurs the remark : " Here has been a custom, time out of mind at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white Cambric Handkerchief to the Minister as an offering. This is observed by Lewis in his History of the Isle of Thanet, where the... | |
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Here has been a custom, time out of mind, at the churching of a woman, for her to give a white cambric handkerchief to the minister as an offering. This is observed by Mr. Lewis in his History of the Isle of Thanet, where the same custom is kept up. 
