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Quind. Pasch. Tres Paschæ. |
Mense. Paschæ. |
Quinque Paschæ. Crast. Ascention. |
¶ Trinitie terme beginneth the fridaie after Trinitie sundaie, and endeth the wednesdaie fortnight after, in which time it hath foure returnes.
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Crast. Trinitatis. Octabis Trinitatis. |
Quind. Trinitatis. Tres Trinitatis. |
¶ Michaelmasse terme beginneth the ninth of October (if it be not sundaie) and ending the eight and twentith of Nouember, it hath eight returnes.
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Octabis Michael. Quind. Michael. |
Tres Michael. Mense Michael. |
Crast. anima. Crast. Martini. |
Octa Martini. Quind. Martini. |
Note also that the escheker, which is Fiscus ærarium publicum principis, openeth eight daies before anie terme begin, except Trinitie terme, which openeth but foure daies before.
And thus much for our vsuall termes as they are kept for the administration of our common lawes, wherevnto I thinke good to adde the lawdaies accustomablie holden in the arches and audience of Canturburie, with other ecclesiasticall and ciuill courts thorough the whole yeare, or for somuch time as their execution indureth (which in comparison is scarselie one halfe of the time if it be diligentlie examined) to the end each one at home being called vp to answer may trulie know the time of his appearance; being sorie in the meane season, that the vse of the popish calendar is so much reteined in the same, and not rather the vsuall daies of the moneth placed in their roomes, sith most of them are fixed and palter not their place of standing. Howbeit some of our infected lawiers will not let them go awaie so easilie, pretending facilitie and custome of vsage, but meaning peraduenture inwardlie to kéepe a commemoration of those dead men whose names are there remembred.
Michaelmas terme.
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S. Faith. S. Edward. S. Luke. |
Simon & Iu. All Soules. S. Martin. |
Edmund. Katharine. S. Andrew. |
Conception of the virgin Marie. |