Show rr church the custom of smoking during daring chara bervice was not confined to the laity and minor clergy for it is recorded that an areli archbishop bishop of york was once reproved by the vicar of st marys nottingham foi attempting to smoke emoke in the church vestry the rev john disney of Swin derley in lincolnshire Lincoln shire writing on the of december 1773 to james jamea grainger says gays the affair happened in st maryr maryf church nottingham when archbishop blackburn was there on a visitation the archbishop had bad ordered some of the apparito rs or other attendants to bring him aim pipes and tobacco and some liquor into ato the vestry for his refreshment after the fatigue of confirmation and this coming to mr Dis ears he forbade dorbad a their being brought thither and with a becoming spirit remonstrated with the upon the impropriety of his ron konduct duct at the same time telling hia hda grace race that his hia vestry should not be W concerted into a smoking room all the th year round bound |