Christmasse

English Proper noun en Christmas. en A Caroll Bringyng in the Bores Heed [Christmasse Carolles] London Newely enprinted at Londõ, in the fletestrete at the Sygne of the Sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde [15th century] (date written) 1521 1350306438 republished in Joseph Ames Typographical Antiquities: Being a Historical Account of Printing in England:With Some Memoirs of Our Antient Printers, and a Register of Books Printed by Them, from the year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC. With an Appendix Concerning Printing in Scotland and Ireland to the Same Time. London Printed by W[illiam] Faden, and sold by J. Robinson,in Ludgate-Street. 1749 96 https://archive.org/details/b30412481/page/96/mode/1up 2 940187384 Be gladde, lordes, bothe more and lasse, / For this hath ordeyned our stewarde / To chere you all this christmasse / The bores heed with mustarde. on II Henry the Eyght 1140–1141 1140 In this Winter was great death in London, wherefore the Terme was adiorned, and the king for to eſchue the plague, kept his Chriſtmaſſe at Eltham with a ſmall number, for no man might come thether, but ſuch as were appoynted by name: this Chriſtmas in the kings houſe, was called the ſtill Chriſtmaſſe. I Shomakers Holiday To All Good Fellowes, Professors of the Gentle Craft; of what Degree Soeuer 3 Kinde Gentlemen, and honeſt Companions, I preſent you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this preſent Chriſtmaſſe, before the Queenes moſt excellent Maieſtie. 191 Hereupon a Peace vvas concluded, vvhich vvas publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after. en The Arraignment, Conviction and Imprisonment of Christmas on S. Thomas Day last,and how he broke out of Prison in the Holidayes and got away, onely left his hoary hair, and gray beard, sticking between two Iron Bars of a Window. With an Hue and Cry after Christmas, and a Letter from Mr. Woodcock, a Fellow in Oxford, to a Malignant Lady in London. And divers passages between the Lady and the Cryer, about Old Christmas: And what shift he was fain to make to save his life, and great stir to fetch him back again. With divers other Witty Passages. Printed by Simon Minc’d Pye,for Cissely Plum-Porridge; And are to be sold by Ralph Fidler, Chandler, at the signe of the Pack of Cards in Mustard-Alley, in Brawn Street. 1645 John Ashton The Arraignment, etc., of Christmas A righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide London published bythe Leadenhall Press, Ltd.,50 Leadenhall Street; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,153–157 Fifth Avenue. [1894] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19979 “Lady—Honest Crier, I know thou knewest old Father Christmas; I am sent to thee from an honest schollar of Oxford (that hath given me many a hug and kisse in Christmasse time when we have been merry) to cry Christmas, for they hear that he is gone from hence, and that we have lost the poor old man; you know what marks he hath, and how to cry him. en 10-13. Kenosha Wisconsin Annual Events 1993 38 YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet. Anagrams en acehimrssst Christmases