Maˊndy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday

the thursday next before Easter, so denominated from our Saviour’s giving a charge to his disciples before his last supper. It has been an ancient practice in England, for the kings and queens on that day to wash the feet of so many poor man &c as they had reigned years, and to give them a dole of cloth, shoes, stockings, money, bread and fish, in imitation of our Saviour, who wash’d the disciples feet at his ordaining the Lord’s Supper, bidding them to do the like to one another.