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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Handsel
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the 0. Eng. term for earnest money; especially in Scotland the first money taken at a market or fair. The termination sel is the modern "sell." "Hand" indicates, not a bargain by shaking hands, but the actual putting of the money into the hand. Handsels were also presents or earnests of goodwill in the North; thus Handsel Monday, the first Monday in the year, an occasion for universal tipping, is the equivalent of the English Boxing day.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Handsel'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/handsel.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Handsel'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/handsel.html. 1910.
