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ROYAL charities . (SECOND SERIES.) PART III.. By HELEN FARQUHAR. Largesse and the King's Dole. D N the British numismatic Journal, vol. xvi, pp. I95-228, we passed in review the subject of Maundy, the name given to a special distribution of charities on Holy Thurs-day in particular. But we saw also that many other ROYAL benefactions came, whether rightly or wrongly, to be included under this designation. I therefore thought it well, before giving actual details of the Maundy, connected with the service of washing the feet of the poor, to clear the ground of other distributions-the Daily Alms, the Poor at the Gate, and the Privy Alms. This I did in the latest volume of the British numismatic Journal (vol.)
ROYAL CHARITIES. (SECOND SERIES.) PART III. . By HELEN FARQUHAR. Largesse and the King's Dole. D N the British Numismatic Journal, vol. xvi, pp. I95-228, we passed in review the subject of Maundy, the name
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