Sunday, 13 November 2011

Workmen's Benefit Societies 1865

Notes and queries THIRD SERIES—VOL. VII. 1865
p.10 GUILING. —In an article in the Quarterly Review, on "Workmen's Benefit Societies," occurs the following' extract from the Rules of an old Society in Gloucestershire: —

"No member on the feast day shall provoke another by calling him nicknames, or by guiling at him, or casting meat or bones at another, or about the room; neither shall any  member feed another by way of fun, and wasting the victuals, to the shame of the company."

No comments: