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WHITLOW

Volume 20 · 45 words · 1815 Edition

or WHITLOE. See SURGERY Index.

WHITSUN-FARTHINGS, otherwise called Smoke-farthings or Quadrantes Pentecostales, a composition for offerings which were anciently made in Whitfuns-week by every man in England, who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese in which he lived.