Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . s. By what seems to-day an interesting para-dox Ordination Day was perhaps themost profitable tavern-gathering in the the visiting ministers were entertainedby an especially good brew called ^ ordina-tion beer and sometimes there was even 223 Among Old New England Inns an ordination ball in the evening, forwhich the sanction of the cloth had beenobtained. The bill at one Hartford ordina-tion Mrs. Earle gives as follows: /. s, d. To keeping Ministers 2 4 2 Mu
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . s. By what seems to-day an interesting para-dox Ordination Day was perhaps themost profitable tavern-gathering in the the visiting ministers were entertainedby an especially good brew called ^ ordina-tion beer and sometimes there was even 223 Among Old New England Inns an ordination ball in the evening, forwhich the sanction of the cloth had beenobtained. The bill at one Hartford ordina-tion Mrs. Earle gives as follows: /. s, d. To keeping Ministers 2 4 2 Mugs Tody 5 10 5 Segars 3 I Pint Wine 9 3 Lodgings 9 3 Bitters 9 3 Breakfasts 3 6 15 Boles Punch I 0 24 dinners I 16 11 bottles wine 3 16 5 Mugs flip 5 10 5 Boles Punch 6 3 Boles Tody 3 6 With unconscious humour this bill is en-dorsed all paid for except the MinistersRum. Very often a tavern would be famed farand wide for its particular variety of Tavern at Westborough used toprepare mulled wine in this perfectly irre-sistible fashion: a quart of boiling hot Ma-deira, half a pint of boiling water, and six 224. ELLERY TAVERN, GLOUCESTER
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