At Guildford town hall two servant girls threw dice for the maid’s money, a bequest of 1674 for a servant long in one place. On 23 January 1902 Clara Howard, eight years in one service, threw highest and won twelve guineas. Hazlitt noted the event among the survivals of his own day.
Throwing dice for the maid’s money
23 January · Guildford, Surrey
Still kept
two domestic servants threw dice to decide which should be the recipient of "the maid's money," left in 1674 by John How
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 2, p. 384. Read the original
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