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Denarii S. Petri
Denarii S. Petri (commonly called Peter's Pence), an annual payment on St. Peter's feast of a penny from every family to the pope, while the Roman Catholic religion was established. Abolished by
Quinzaine
The fifteenth day after a feast day including both in the reckoning
Corpus Christi Day
Corpus Christi Day, the 2nd June, a feast instituted in 1264 in honour of the Blessed Sacrament, and on which fairs and markets are prohibited by
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Arvil-supper
Arvil-supper, a feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvil bread is bread delivered to the
Semidouble
An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones See Double n 8
Gaudy
Gaudy [fr. gaudium, Lat.], a feast, a festival, a day of plenty, Ibid.
Fild-ale, or Filk-ale
Fild-ale, or Filk-ale [fr. fillen, sax., to fill, and ale], an ale-feast. A term applied to an extortionate practice of officers of the forest, and of bailiffs of hundreds, of compelling persons to contribute to the...
Pentecostals
Pentecostals, pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests; and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother
Halimass, or Hallamass
Halimass, or Hallamass, the feast of all Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross quarters of the year was computed
Holiday, or Holyday
Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the
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