BEATING THE BOUNDS.—A seven-year-old choirboy, Peter Semple, is “bumped” at the boundary stone by Cleopatra’s Needle, on the Thames embankment, during the ceremony of “beating the bounds” of the parish of Savoy, London. A procession of parish dignitaries, accompanied by clergy and choirboys, marched round the parish, and at strategic points on the boundaries selected choirboys were turned upside down and the bounds beaten with canes.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28895, 15 May 1959, Page 8
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66BEATING THE BOUNDS.—A seven-year-old choirboy, Peter Semple, is “bumped” at the boundary stone by Cleopatra’s Needle, on the Thames embankment, during the ceremony of “beating the bounds” of the parish of Savoy, London. A procession of parish dignitaries, accompanied by clergy and choirboys, marched round the parish, and at strategic points on the boundaries selected choirboys were turned upside down and the bounds beaten with canes. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28895, 15 May 1959, Page 8
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