 | John Harland - 1873 - 332 sider
...that high and lofty spire There 's moved a single stone ! PRESCOT, HUYTON, AND CHILDWALL. PRESCOT, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all...minds, But women has but two ; Everything is what they 'd have, And nothing would they do. New moon ! new moon ! I pray to thee : Tell me who my true... | |
 | 300 sider
...given: — Prescot for panmugs, Huyton for pride, Childwall for toiling, And playing beside. Prescot, Huyton, and Merry Childow, Three parish churches all in a row; Prescot for mugs, Huyton for ploydes, Chüdow for ringing and singing besides. Ployde is a word that has escaped our local glossary makers.... | |
 | William Edward Armytage Axon - 1883 - 410 sider
...panmugs, Huyton for pride, Childwall for toiling, And playing beside. Another version runs : — Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all...ploydes, Childow for ringing and singing besides. "Ployde" is a word that has escaped our local glossarymakers. It is interpreted as "merry meetings,"... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 590 sider
...some of it is now enclosed and cultivated. BC. 319. Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three poor churches all in a row, Prescot for mugs, Huyton for...singing besides. " Ploydes " = ploys — merry meetings ; some think ploughs. " Childow " = Child wall. BA. 183. Preston for panmugs, Huyton for pride, Childwall... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 sider
...some of it is now enclosed and cultivated. BC. 319. Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three poor churches all in a row, Prescot for mugs, Huyton for...Childow for ringing and singing besides. " Ploydes " = ploys—merry meetings ; some think ploughs. " Childow " = Child wall. BA. 183. Preston for panmugs,... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 sider
...for tolling, and playing beside. — Higson, 36. Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parishes churches all in a row. Prescot for mugs, Huyton for...ploydes,* Childow for ringing and singing besides. Had. and Wilk., p. 182. * Ploys, merry meetings? or ploughs. PP The Paschal Lamb with these letters... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1914 - 440 sider
...its way into rhyme. There are many variants,4 but the best known is probably as follows : Prescot & Huyton and merry Childow, Three parish churches all in a row, Prescot for Poverty, Huyton for Pride, And Childwall for ringing and singing beside. Another version of the third... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1915 - 384 sider
...(1873), page 183, bears witness to the celebrity of the Childwall bells in old days : — Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all...Childow for ringing and singing besides. "Ploydes," or ploys, are said to be "merry meetings," though some think ploughs are meant. Another version is... | |
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PRESCOT, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all in a row : Prescot for mugs ; Huyton for ploydes ; Childow for ringing and singing besides. 