Note 1258 — Chapter X · (continued 2)

So also in the South of England, between 1799 and 1803. 'The two women she took most notice of in the parish were the last persons who ever did penance at Hurstmonceaux, having both to stand in a white sheet in the Churchyard; so that people said, "There are Mrs. Hare Naylor's friends doing penance."'—A.J.C. Hare's Memorials of a Quiet Life, i. 143. In 1805, one Sarah Chamberlain did penance in like manner at Littleham Church, near Exmouth.