 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1891 - 322 sider
...cull the following : We have heard old people relate, that at the funerals of the rich in former days, it was here a custom to hand " burnt wine " to the...flagon to the houses of friends for distribution. The passing bell was then tolled at all hours of the night, and not as now, in the case of night deaths,... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 360 sider
...says the compiler of the "Whitby Glossary," (quoted by Atkinson, in his "Cleveland Glossary," 1868), "it was here a custom to hand burnt wine to the company...flagon to the houses of friends for distribution." An allusion to these entertainments occurs in the Romance of Sir Degore (about 1500) : "A great feaste... | |
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At the funerals of the rich in former days." says the compiler of the "Whitby Glossary," (quoted by Atkinson, in his "Cleveland Glossary," 1868), "it was here a custom to hand burnt wine to the company in a silver flagon, out of which every one drank.... 