Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurrings
Literary usage of Spurrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... or to any other friendly [• For the derivation of Spurrings, or publication
of banns, see "N. & Q.," 2°^ S. xii. 271, 332, 402.-ED. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1833)
"May not, then, the provincial term spurrings very naturally and probably have
been originally deduced from the above-mentioned Saxon ..."
3. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"For publishing the banns of marriage, or " spurrings" as they were called at that
time in this district, 6d. was to be paid. If a man or woman of the parish ..."
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