_Smoke Money_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--"Anciently, even in England, were
Whitsun farthings, or smoke farthings, which were a composition for
offerings made in Whitsun week, by every man who occupied a house with a
chimney, to the cathedral of the diocese in which he lived."--Audley's
_Companion to the Almanac_, p. 76.
Pentecostals, or Whitsun Farthings, are mentioned by Pegge as being paid
in 1788 by the parishioners of the diocese of Lichfield, in aid of the
repairs of the cathedral, to the dean and chapter; but he makes no
allusion to the word _smoke_, adding only that in this case the payment
went by the name of Chad-pennies, or Chad-farthings, the cathedral there
being dedicated to St. Chad.