-
Choral Bedesmen,
whose role is to sing the
daily services. The
posts attracted a
nominal stipend until early in the 21st century. The
Bedesmen have included...
- Barchester. The
income maintains the
almshouse itself,
supports its
twelve bedesmen, and
provides a
comfortable abode and
living for its warden. Mr Harding...
- wife Jean Moir of Stoneywood.
During the late 18th century, Old
Aberdeen Bedesmen moved from
their original hospital beside St Machar's
Church to the former...
- King's
Bedesmen or blue
gouns (the
gowns were part of the alms
given by the monarch).
Scott gives an
account of the
customs and of
particular Bedesmen he...
-
there were
bedesmen.
Bedesmen were
elderly men and in some
cases women, who were
cared for by the
Church or
civic authorities.
Bedesmen were
housed in...
- the
statutes of the
College of St. George's, a
community of twenty-six
bedesmen,
called Alms
Knights or Poor Knights, were appointed.
Their duties included...
- people. They were
sometimes called bede-houses, and the
residents were
bedesmen or bedeswomen. Bede is the Anglo-Saxon word for prayer, and the almsmen...
- recorded.
Bedesmen were
supported by a
charitable foundation that
emerged from the
original church control until the twenty-first century.
Bedesmen drew their...
-
Hospital in 1988, the
bedesmen lived in the
community supported by the
Dunbar Hospital Trust; see Ray McAleese, 'Old Aberdeen's
Bedesmen -
Poverty and Piety...
-
annexed to the
cathedral although revenues were
directed to
support three bedesmen at the hospital. The
vicarage was
appropriated to the
collegiate church...
