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The contest may be said to have begun in 1697, when Sir Humphrey Edwin, upon his election as Lord Mayor, after duly receiving the Sacrament according to the use of the Church of England, proceeded in state to the Congregational Chapel at Pinner's Hall. Exactly the same thing recurred in 1701, in the case of Sir T. Abney.
"She's not a bad servant, as servants go," responded Miss Carlyle. "She's steady and respectable; but she has got a tongue as long as from here to Lynneborough." "That won't hurt baby," said Lady Isabel. "But if she has lived as lady's maid, she probably does not understand the care of infants." "Yes she does. She was upper servant at Squire Pinner's before going to Mrs. Hare's.
FIRST PREACHED AT PINNER'S HALL and now ENLARGED AND PUBLISHED FOR GOOD. By JOHN BUNYAN, London: Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1682 Faithfully reprinted from the Author's First Edition.
Thornton came frankly forwards: 'I'm sorry, Miss Hale, you have visited us at this unfortunate moment, when, I fear, you may be involved in whatever risk we have to bear. Mother! hadn't you better go into the back rooms? I'm not sure whether they may not have made their way from Pinner's Lane into the stable-yard; but if not, you will be safer there than here.
"A fine row we have had in the town, Joyce, this afternoon." "I have heard of it, ma'am. Served him right, if they had let him drown! Bill White, Squire Pinner's plowman, called in here and told us the news. He'd have burst with it, if he hadn't, I expect; I never saw a chap so excited. Peter cried." "Cried?" echoed Miss Carlyle.
While Amanda's return aroused the curiosity of Rehoboth, it drew few callers to the cottage on Pinner's Brow.
"Well, Bill Warson 'lows that if they's any good looks in the family, they come from him." "Maw, you-all got a hairpin? Give hit to me next time I turn co'ners." "Look at Evvie Williams! She always gets a seat nex' the window, so's she c'n talk to some feller out o' hit." "Ah did, too, when Ah was that age." "Yes, Ah remember you did. Ah don' guess Hamp Pinner's goin' to dance with Ollie tonight."
The two gentlemen looked on in discomfort, wondering what it meant; Lady Isabel hid her face as best she could, terrified to death lest his eyes should fall on it: while the spectators, several of whom had collected now, listened with interest, especially some farm laborers of Squire Pinner's who had happened to be passing.
Throwin' down them rocks 'minds me o' old man Pinner's tantrums. Sher'ff kem ter his house 'bout a jedgmint debt, an' levied on his craps. An' arter he war gone old man tuk a axe an' gashed bodaciously inter the loom an' hacked it up. Ez ef that war goin' ter do enny good! His wife war the mos' outed woman I ever see.
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