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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