Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1883)
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Shrewsbury [etc.] Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society · leaf 420
)reaching awaytheir pastime. The setting up of a green tree, or maypole, gailydecked ^vith garlands, before the Shearmens Hall, inShrewsbury, was, according to an old LIS. in my pos-session, an usago [)ractised by the ap[)rentices of thislarge company on their feast-day, previously to theyear 1588.… … THE SMITHS AND ARMOURERS .\RR0UR. seems to have excited the dis})leasure of tlie Puritans;and the custom being denounced by the pul)hcpreacher of the town (an ollice granted to the min-ister of St. Marys), and also forbidden by the baihlfs ;the J\IS. furtlier says, that in 15!)L certain young]nen…
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Excavations (Archaeology) · Natural history
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