Mostly the well-heeled queue for Tichborne’s gallons of dole
March 27th, 2009
To be sure, to be sure,
Or, mixed with the ecclesiastical, Lady Day’ s religious significance is observed with a token shake of the bristles of a holy water brush by whoever the Roman Catholic Canon of St Peter’s, Winchester, delegates to blessing the Tichborne Dole.
Lady Day in Cressroads – more especially, Tichborne – remains a traditional day on which, if given an Irish spin of the harvest coin, landowners settle their annual debts.
