Distribution of Her Majesty's Maundy in the Banquetting House, Whitehall. Annual alms-giving ceremony by Beefeaters in Lent. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841.

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