So late as 1784 one Edward Richardson, of Ince, Lancashire, left a quaint bequest in his will. On each Ascension Day for the first fifty years after his death there, was to be great distribution of oatmeal among the poor of his old: neighbourhood. Three loads were Dequeathed for Ince, one load Abram, and one for Hindley. was perhaps in sympathy with Epicurus, who wrote:—"Give me barley-mical and water and T rival Jove himself in hapuness, and with Seacea, who quoted those very words.
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