The Gloucestershire Society is a charitable society founded on 1 December 1657 by 50 "Gloucestershire Gentlemen that Inhabit within the City of Bristol".[1] It is a registered charity.[2] Its early activities included helping local apprentices.[3] The song "The stwuns that built George Ridler's oven" was sung at meetings causing historians to see the society as a covert royalist organisation[4] but that view is rejected by the society.
References edit
- ^ "The Story of The Gloucestershire Society".
- ^ "Charity Details". beta.charitycommission.gov.uk.
- ^ Chilcott, John (25 April 2019). "Chilcott's descriptive history of Bristol" – via Google Books.
- ^ Gibbs, J. Arthur (1929) A Cotswold Village, or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. 3rd edition. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 73-76 & 313-316.
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