New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-19
WHIP-D0G DAY.

CURIOUS OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM AND n
ORIGIN.
From The Field.
The custom Of whipping dogs out Of church o
st. Luke's Day is Of very ancient origin indee.
some have tried to make out that IL dates fror
the time of the Romans. Il contention with wh4
Drake does not agree. In the History Of York
Vol l. page BOG, the traditional account Of Tie
origin is given to the effect that at a time loss
prior TO the Reformation a priest, while cee
brating mass on some festival In some church e
York, dropped the pyx after conservation ant
the wafer was promptly snatched W and De
voured by dog which had been lying conceaet
under the altar. The PROCLAMATION If this hgt
mystery Occasioned the death Of the dog. per
secution began. and had since continued on So
Luke's Day. Unfortunately the date ls not give,
on which the priest dropped the pyN but II mus
have been in the very remote past, as IN th'
middle of the sixteenth century whipping dog
out Of church was a recognized function an1
the dOg-whipper a recognized Official In VI
church wardens' accounts for the parish I
WOrksop appears an entry that the sum 4
ninepence was paid TO Old Verde for Nmpp4
dogs" while in 1916 for whipping dogges G
Of We church for one whole year" I'D. was pal.
while at Reading and Louth still earlier entire
are 10 be found. In the parish OF Try sull sa''
fordshire John Rudge gave by his VIII. cate.
so late as April II. I'D five shilling quartz
to pay a poor man 10 90 about the paris,
church Of Trysull during the sermon TO ke
people awake and to keep dogs out OF chursl
In the neighboring county Of Saiop. hoveTsl
John Rudge had been anticipated, as AT ClovG1
lev Richard Dewey. Of Farmcote. granted Il
August 1859. certain premises TO John Sande'i
on certain conditions. one being THAT ne worii
paw yearly the sum OF IS TO a poor man OF nil
parish who would undertake to awaken sleepehI
and to whip out dogs from the church Of Clovel
ley during divine service. Here and there la,e
have been devised for the endowment Oh uI
dog -Whippers Office one instance being ""l
Chislet in Kent.
If not at the present time. IL was az All ever
the practice until comparatively recently isl
the tenants Of a certain place called Dog-NhFi
pers Marsh to pay Js. year 20 person ~
keeping order in church, while from time
memorial there had been an acre az land 10
parish of Peterchurch Herefordshre WIG
had been appropriated to the use Of pers
for keeping dogs out Of church. tn person 81
appointed by the minister and churh-NafdsiA
The Rev ]. Eastwood, in his History of Ecdsj
field. Yorkshire" says that the dog hppef ri
also known as the dog-noper. while n the chur.
of Youlgrave, in Derbyshire the dog "hipp.
pew was in existence until the church was I'll
stored between 1865 and 1870, under the SUI.
vision OF Norman Shaw. II is Well known ~ |
the custom Of taking dogs to church IS W
old one some OF the Dutch artists 10 t,Wes.
ing the interior of church. int drlaDy ID.
duced a dog while in Landseer's picture,
Free Church." dogs are in evidence In ~
borough Cathedral there is. or Was, me7'DI
likeness of Scarlet, who was sexton. ana " i
waistbelt is thrust his dogwhi WINE
church near Blackwell a dogwhlp b. pIesel
The thong Is about three feet long. me
stock is OF ash. around the hand, ol "m0"
band Of twisted leather. i