The wives of St Mary-at-Hill in London who went out gathering money for the church on Hock Monday, which Londoners called Hob Monday, were rewarded with a meal of beef, bread and ale. Brand, quoting the churchwardens’ accounts of St Mary-at-Hill, gives the dinner for 1499, and for 1497 thirteen shillings and fourpence gathered by the women on the Monday against five shillings by the men on the Tuesday.
Ribs of beef for the Hob Monday wives
15 days after Easter · St Mary-at-Hill, London
No longer kept
For two rybbs of bief, and for bred and ale, to the wyvys yn the parish that gathered on Hok Monday,
From Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. 1, p. 190. Read the original
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