spendes

Updated: May 23, 2025

At the long tables, when the ale was set abroach, "well is he," writes a contemporary, "that can get the soonest to it, and spend the most at it, for he that sitteth the closest to it, and spendes the most at it, hee is counted the godliest man of all the rest ... because it is spent uppon his Church forsooth." The receipts from these ales were sometimes very large.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects