CHURCH GATE TIED UP
WEDDING CUSTOM BRINGS FINE. LONDON, May 10. The ancient custom of barring the exit from a church until a wedding party paid money to the villagers was mentioned in a case at Kendal yesterday. Samuel Strickland, an old-age pensioner, of Lyth, Westmorland, was fined 10/- for consuming beer after hours at the Punch Bowl Inn, Crosthwaite.
It was alleged that people attending a wedding at Crosthwaite Church objected to Strickland tying up the church gate, because as soon as he got a. “bribe” he went straight to the inn opposite and spent it on beer. A clergyman who remonstrated with Strickland was. said to have been cursed by the accused “for five minutes on end.”
Strickland declared that the beer he was alleged to have drunk was served before closing time. The licensee of the inn was fined £1 for aiding and abetting Strickland.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 12
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