| Where: | Formerly at Wotton, Surrey at St John the Evangelist's Church |
| When: | Formerly on 2nd February |
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This charity dole ceased during the twentieth century but is included here because it is sometimes listed as current in books and on websites. William Glanville died in 1717 and left a bequest in his will to provide forty shillings for five boys if they could recite the Lords Prayer, Apostles Creed and Ten Commandments from memory standing at Glanvilles tomb at St John’s Church on the anniversary of his death, February 2nd.
Photo by World of Oddy.
Youngsters would first need to be educated as to what a Shilling is nowadays.
Indeed -they’d have quite a bit to learn to get their money in this case!
The Shilling has seemed to be quite a popular coin in history, with Charles ii introducing “The King’s Shilling ” for soldiers newly recruited, apparently he was keen to encourage good military loyalty after what happened to Charles i. !!
Latterly of course there was “Bob a job”, the Bob being the slang for shilling.