Bing-drinking at the parsonage

Bing-drinking at the parsonage – no, that’s not a typographical error. “Bing-ale”, according to An Alphabet of Kenticisms by Samuel Pegge, the 18th-century vicar of Godmersham, Kent, was “the liquour which the fermor [farmer] of a parsonage [that is, the parson/farmer] gives to the fermours and to the servants, at two separate entertainments, servants first… Read More Bing-drinking at the parsonage