almsman

Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

It was, when made of coarse material, commonly worn in the middle ages by pilgrims, beggars and almsmen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.

From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

It was much spoilt in the fifties: the original plan was a great hall, with a chapel at the end of it, and cells along the side for the almsmen.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

The Bourgeois knew that his poor almsmen would be standing there, and he would no more avoid them than he would avoid the Governor.

From The Golden Dog by William Kirby

On their saint's day, as in the old days of the Guild, the Company marched in great magnificence, with music and flags and new liveries, with their wardens, officers, schoolboys, almsmen, and priests, to church.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant