The book of Edinburgh Anecdote
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Perhaps it was to regulate an abuse which could not be entirely checked, that the King's bedesmen, or Bluegowns, as they were called, from their dress, were established or re-formed as licensed beggars. These assembled yearly on the King's birth- day to receive an annual dole of bread and ale and blue gown, and to hear service in St. Giles'. More wel- come than all was the gift of a penny for every year of the King's reign, which was given in a leather purse. The place was the north side of the... Tolbooth, hence called " The Puir Folks' Purses, " or more briefly, " The Purses. " The scene was afterwards transferred to the Canongate Church, and then it was done away with altogether. The analogous Maundy money is still dis- tributed annually at Westminster Abbey. The classic example of this picturesque figure of old Scots life is Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary, but in Scott's time Bluegowns still adorned Edinburgh streets; hence the following anecdote. Scott, as he went to and fro from college, was in the habit of givingalms to oneof those gentlemen.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Perhaps it was to regulate an abuse which could not be entirely checked, that the King's bedesmen, or Bluegowns, as they were called, from their dress, were established or re-formed as licensed beggars. These assembled yearly on the King's birth- day to receive an annual dole of bread and ale and blue gown, and to hear service in St. Giles'. More wel- come than all was the gift of a penny for every year of the King's reign, which was given in a leather purse. The place was the north side of the... Tolbooth, hence called " The Puir Folks' Purses, " or more briefly, " The Purses. " The scene was afterwards transferred to the Canongate Church, and then it was done away with altogether. The analogous Maundy money is still dis- tributed annually at Westminster Abbey. The classic example of this picturesque figure of old Scots life is Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary, but in Scott's time Bluegowns still adorned Edinburgh streets; hence the following anecdote. Scott, as he went to and fro from college, was in the habit of givingalms to oneof those gentlemen.
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