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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Lincolnshire

In Glentham Church there is a tomb with a figure known as Molly Grime. Formerly this figure was regularly washed every Good Friday by seven old maids of Glentham, with water brought from Newell Well, each receiving a shilling for her trouble, in consequence of an old bequest connected with some property in that district. About 1832 the custom was discontinued.—Old English Customs and Charities, 1842, p. 100.

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