Ashwednesday

English Noun en now _ rare en Ash Wednesday. en w:John Stow A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590 1590 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-summarie-of-englyshe-c_stow-john-the-summary-_1565/page/n12/mode/1up?q=ashwednesday&view=theater ſo that the ſame law day after Aſhwedneſday cannot be kept, becauſe the law day of the other feaſt doth light on the ſame day: then the ſecond law day after Aſhwedneſday ſhalbe kept, and the other omitted. en w:Francis Rous Catholick Charitie XII John Bartlet 1641 351-352 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_catholick-charitie_rous-francis-elder_1641/page/352/mode/2up?q=%22AshWednesday%22 Rather ſpeake of ſenſe and appetite when you ſee a Papiſt in his fat dayes, before Aſhwedneſday , to make worke for the Prieſt, en Henry Prescott John Addy; John Harrop; Peter McNiven The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese w:Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire III 1997 911 https://archive.org/details/isbn_0902593285/page/910/mode/2up?q=%22AshWednesday%22 [1695 February] 6 Ashwednesday, a fine frosty morning, walk, read the 24 Book de Finibus, &c.