Our previous church guide book has sold out, so somewhat slowly we are rewriting it to make it somewhat more "accessible" and interesting. How's this for a great ditty, of uncertain authorship and age but probably early C19, collected by W Branch Johnson in his "Welwyn By and Large", a collection of Historical Gossip (available in the local reference section of Welwyn Garden City Library):
"Clergy of Ayot St Peter and St Lawrence too,
Misture of Piety and Tally-ho;
Builders of chuches by way of gammon,
To keep on good terms with God and mammon.
Preachers of love, Apes of Humility,
Proud as Lucifer, laking his ability."
"Clergy of Ayot St Peter and St Lawrence too,
Misture of Piety and Tally-ho;
Builders of chuches by way of gammon,
To keep on good terms with God and mammon.
Preachers of love, Apes of Humility,
Proud as Lucifer, laking his ability."
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