almsman

Buried Eppifania Cakewood, an almsman’s wife.”

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

These cells were open at the top so that there was plenty of fresh air, and if an almsman became ill or infirm, he could hear the service chanted daily in the chapel without leaving his bed.

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