The Gloucestershire Society Explained

The Gloucestershire Society is a charitable society founded on 1 December 1657 by 50 "Gloucestershire Gentlemen that Inhabit within the City of Bristol".[1] It is a registered charity.[2] Its early activities included helping local apprentices.[3] The song "The stwuns that built George Ridler's oven" was sung at meetings causing historians to see the society as a covert royalist organisation[4] but that view is rejected by the society.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Story of The Gloucestershire Society. 16 April 2021 .
  2. Web site: The Gloucestershire Society. The Charity Commission. 28 April 2024.
  3. Web site: Chilcott's descriptive history of Bristol. John. Chilcott. 25 April 2019. Google Books.
  4. [J. Arthur Gibbs|Gibbs, J. Arthur]

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