Maundy Thursday have an Anglican patrimony, retain the traditional English term "Maundy Thursday", however. An article in the 1911 "Catholic Encyclopedia" used the term "Maundy Thursday", and some Catholic writers use the same term either primarily, or alternatively. The Methodist "Book of Worship for Church and Home" (1965) uses the term "Maundy Thursday"; the "Book of Worship" (1992) uses the term "Holy Thursday", and other official sources of the United Methodist Church use both "Maundy Thursday" and "Holy Thursday". Both names are used by other Christian denominations as well, including the Lutheran Church or portions of the Reformed Church. The Presbyterian Church
Royal Maundy time a Maundy recipient continued in that status for life, the surplus recipients were placed on waiting lists, and given royal charity through other means. One vacancy occurred a week before the 1838 Maundy when recipient Elizabeth Love died at the age of 110. In 1843, "The Illustrated London News" described a Maundy ceremony: On the day alluded to a certain number of poor men and women, of each the exact number of our sovereign's age, attends divine worship in the Royal Chapel, Whitehall in the morning and afternoon. Bread, meat and fish is distributed to them in large wooden