Excerpt from The Priest of Auvrigny, or How a Christian Avenges Himself, And, the King of the Bean: Translated From the FrenchWorkmen's Hospital. Thrice each day, the poor of the village presented themselves at the Almonry-gate to receive bread, soup, and cooked meats, or vegetables on fasting and days of abstinence. On certain occasions, as the principal feasts of the year, they were given, each, a piece of money. The servants of the castle, under the surveillance of the almoner, were intrusted with these distributions, and from this circumstance the establish ment received the name of the Almonry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.