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Royal Maundy (pre-1926) Old Newsreel Film
Let's see if this link will work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jRH...layer_embedded Of some moderate interest - its getting to be that time of the year. oly |
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Royal Maundy (pre-1926) Old Newsreel Film
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Let's see if this link will work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jRH...layer_embedded Of some moderate interest - its getting to be that time of the year. oly Interesting, and I learned something. Instead of being just a part of the public tit, Maundy money was a tit for tat, the tat being service to community and/or church. Hoo'dathunk? Oh well, it gives the Beefeaters something to do. James, partly of British Ancestry 'my 7-great grandpa was a horse thief in Londinium' |
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Royal Maundy (pre-1926) Old Newsreel Film
On Feb 20, 10:23*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com
wrote: oly wrote: Let's see if this link will work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jRH...layer_embedded Of some moderate interest - its getting to be that time of the year. oly Interesting, and I learned something. *Instead of being just a part of the public tit, Maundy money was a tit for tat, the tat being service to community and/or church. *Hoo'dathunk? *Oh well, it gives the Beefeaters something to do. James, partly of British Ancestry 'my 7-great grandpa was a horse thief in Londinium' Well, I thought the modern text was a possibly a bit different than the actuality of old-time distributions. In olden times, the basic requirement for recieving this royal gift was being POOR (but perhaps respectable and/or of some useful service to the church officers). Nowadays, with government retirement pension schemes and straight-out doles, the really really poor are that much harder to find. My understanding that these poor people are rather hard-to-find and also nobody really liked being publicly labeled as "poor" anyway. So today (I have been told) the threshold for becoming a Maundy coin recipient has become long and noteworthy service to the Church of England. BUT, I couldn't help but notice that the Maundy recipients in this 1918-1925 dated film (the woman and men who are shown holding the white purses that contained their monetary gifts) didn't look dirt poor even in those days. I suppose that you wore your very very best clothes that you had to the Maundy ceremony, and maybe your friends and family loaned you some of their best too. The reigning sovereign didn't start attending the Maundy ceremony regularly until 1933 and after. Of course, Queen Alexandra was the Queen Dowager (her husband died in 1910, of course) when this ceremony was filmed. I think she died in 1925. oly |
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Royal Maundy (pre-1926) Old Newsreel Film
On Feb 20, 10:44*am, oly wrote:
On Feb 20, 10:23*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: oly wrote: Let's see if this link will work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jRH...layer_embedded Of some moderate interest - its getting to be that time of the year. oly Interesting, and I learned something. *Instead of being just a part of the public tit, Maundy money was a tit for tat, the tat being service to community and/or church. *Hoo'dathunk? *Oh well, it gives the Beefeaters something to do. James, partly of British Ancestry 'my 7-great grandpa was a horse thief in Londinium' Well, I thought the modern text was a possibly a bit different than the actuality of old-time distributions. In olden times, the basic requirement for recieving this royal gift was being POOR (but perhaps respectable and/or of some useful service to the church officers). Nowadays, with government retirement pension schemes and straight-out doles, the really really poor are that much harder to find. *My understanding that these poor people are rather hard-to-find and also nobody really liked being publicly labeled as "poor" anyway. *So today (I have been told) the threshold for becoming a Maundy coin recipient has become long and noteworthy service to the Church of England. BUT, I couldn't help but notice that the Maundy recipients in this 1918-1925 dated film (the woman and men who are shown holding the white purses that contained their monetary gifts) didn't look dirt poor even in those days. I suppose that you wore your very very best clothes that you had to the Maundy ceremony, and maybe your friends and family loaned you some of their best too. The reigning sovereign didn't start attending the Maundy ceremony regularly until 1933 and after. *Of course, Queen Alexandra was the Queen Dowager (her husband died in 1910, of course) when this ceremony was filmed. *I think she died in 1925. oly- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - In the scene where the shaky older man and the rather spiffy younger man are holding their white gift purses, there is another young man in a kind of nice but simple wool uniform who takes a long drag off of his cigarette. Look at him. This young man look suspiciously like the Prince of Wales, although the whole scene seems too informal - he isn't getting the attention you would expect if that's who he was. oly |
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Royal Maundy (pre-1926) Old Newsreel Film
On Feb 20, 11:23*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com
wrote: *Oh well, it gives the Beefeaters something to do. "Tower warders under orders brave in bearing, foemen scaring ..." |
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