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Alms

Almonarius [corruption of eleemosynarius], a distributer of alms

Plough-alms [eleemosyn' aratrales, Lat.], the ancient payment of a penny to the Church from every-plough land, Dugd. Mon. tom. i....

Alms-houses. Houses given by charitable persons for poor persons to live

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Begging, means: (i) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering into any private premises

Alms. Charitable contributions. The receipt of parochial relief or other alms

were continued under the Normans, are these: (1) Frankalmoigne [free alms], by which religious corporations and their successors held lands of

Maundy Thursday [fr. maund, Sax., an alms-basket, or dies mandati, Lat., the day of the command], the

place, street, highway, Court, or passage, to beg, or gather alms, or procuring children so to do, see Mathers v. Penfold,

corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind

Crown to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by the high almoner; but the right to deodands had

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