06-21-2009, 09:22 AM
And there is more...
Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.