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ing King JAMES and his Court attending the Sermon which was preached by The Bishop of London in 1620, being engraved from an original Picture, in the possession of THE SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of LONDON.

In 1622, ROGER JESTON devised sundry messuages and lands, in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, to The Master and four Wardens of the Fraternity of Haberdashers, chargeable, among other payments, with the annual sum of 51. "to the Preachers that come to preach at Paul's Cross," at the discretion of the The Wardens.46 In 1634, this donation was distributed, viz.

"To the Preacher at Paul's Cross, on the 27th of March, 20s.

"To the Preacher there on Good Friday, 20s.

"To the Preacher that made the Rehearsal Sermon the Sunday after Easter-day, 40s.

"To the Preacher there on the 5th of November, 20s."

In 1645, the Sermons were preached in the same manner as in 1634, at Paul's Rep. x. p. 211.

Cross, but, in 1646, one only was preached on the 5th of November at Paul's Church, and in several succeeding years either there or at Christchurch in Newgate Street.47

The 57. is now paid to poor Clergymen of the Church of England, appointed by The Master and Wardens.48

the sum

In 1629, MARY PARADYNE gave of 300l. to The Haberdashers' Company, to the intent that they should pay, among other charities, 107. a year to four poor Preachers, to be appointed by them.49 In 1634, this donation was paid to "GEORGE "MYTON, SAMUEL ENGLISH, SAMUEL "FAWCET, and JAMES ELLEDGE, four poor Preachers." 50 The persons receiving this bounty appear, from the Account books of The Company, to have been the Preachers at Paul's Cross, and

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47 From the obliging information of Hambly Knapp, Esq., Clerk of The Haberdashers' Company.

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Rep. x. p. 212:

49 Rep. x. p. 215, 216.

50 From the Letter of Mr. Knapp, dated the 25th

of October, 1826.

the payment continued until the year 1685, when it ceased. But The Company, since the investigation of The Commissioners, have adopted the plan of distributing this 107., as in JESTON's charity, among four poor Clergymen of the Establishment.5 51

CARE SUNDAY.

In the North of England, there are yet some lingering vestiges of the Superstitious observances of PASSION SUNDAY, ofr the Sunday immediately preceding PALM SUNDAY, which, before THE REFORMATION, were general throughout the Kingdom.-Among other of the old Ceremonies, soft beans were distributed as a kind of Dole, to denote this season of grief, a custom, no doubt, derived from Pagan Rome, offerings of that species of Pulse having been deemed by the Heathens peculiarly propitious in appeasing the ghosts of the departed. The Latin Church, 51 Rep. x. p. 216.

however, attributes the Custom to an imitation of the Disciples, who plucked the ears of Corn, and rubbed them in their hands, &c. Instead of beans, our Northern Countrymen use pease in their repast of this day, especially in Northumberland,—— in some places they are first parboiled, and then parched,-in other districts, they are only parched, and the day is still known by the name of "CARE or Carling SUNDAY," in Durham and the adjoining Counties, a title which it once universally bore in England, though now no longer noticed in our Calendar, signifying a day of especial care or devotional attention.

After THE REFORMATION, when the follies or usages of this day were discontinued, the common people testified their approbation of that relief from mortification, by the humble but expressive couplet, still in use in Nottinghamshire, of

"Care Sunday, care away,

Palm Sunday, and Easter-day.!"

At Newark-upon-Trent, one of the public Fairs is denominated "Careing

Fair," and is holden the Friday before Careing Sunday, which is the Sunday fortnight before Easter,-and the remembrance of that Sunday, which governs this Fair, and others in Lent, is also preserved in another common saying in the North, of

"Tid, Mid, Misera,

Carling, Palm, and Paste-Egg day."

This saying is thus explained, the "Tid, Mid, Misera," being corruptions of the old Latin service Te Deum, Mi Deus, Miserere Mei, "Carling, and Palm," as already elucidated, — and "Paste-Egg day," allusive to the Paschal Eggs, which are presented on Easter Day, being prettily stained of various colours.52

Gilt or coloured Eggs were considered by the Romish Church to be emblematical of the Resurrection, and were accordingly given away at this season.

The old appellation of " Care Sunday” is commemorated in the Will of WILLIAM 52 Brady's Clavis Calendaria, vol. i. p. 261.

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