The Gloucestershire Society

The Gloucestershire Society is a charitable society founded on 1 December 1657 by 50 "Gloucestershire Gentlemen that Inhabit within the City of Bristol".[1] It is a registered charity.[2] Its early activities included helping local apprentices.[3] The song "The stwuns that built George Ridler's oven" was sung at meetings causing historians to see the society as a covert royalist organisation[4] but that view is rejected by the society.

References

  1. ↑ "The Story of The Gloucestershire Society".
  2. ↑ "Charity Details". beta.charitycommission.gov.uk.
  3. ↑ Chilcott, John (25 April 2019). "Chilcott's descriptive history of Bristol" – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Gibbs, J. Arthur (1929) A Cotswold Village, or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. 3rd edition. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 73-76 & 313-316.


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