Select Vestries (1719) [ Practices ]
… Clerks; or, perhaps, one who has the Honour to serve two Masters, shall meet together in private, at some little hedg Tavern, most proper for their Purpose, and there, over their Cacklers , Fish-Suppers , and Quarts or Canary , contrive … appointed by the worshipful Mr. Quorum , or Mr. Quibus , in Contempt of the Clergy, and privately kept at some mungrel Tavern , inslead of the Parish-Church , except some Tun-Belly'd Brother-Officer happens to keep an Ale-house, and then, …
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