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	Michaelmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michaelmas (pronounced /'mɪkəlməs/) or the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels is a day in the Christian calendar, taking place on 29 September.
		It is one of the English and Welsh and Irish quarter days in the Irish calendar.
		It is also used in the extended sense of " Autumn ", so Michaelmas is also the name of the first term in the Cambridge, Durham, the LSE, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin academic year which starts around this date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michaelmas (280 words)

	Moving Days
		In parts of England, May 1 was known as “Pack Rag Day,”; the day on which servants would gather their belongings in a bundle and change their employers at hiring fairs.
		Michaelmas Day (September 29) or Old Michaelmas Day (October 10) was also a time when farmhands would change employment.
		In 1865 moving day was postponed until May 3, as President Lincoln's funeral cortege was passing through the city on the first day of that month.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/852.html (274 words)

	Folios 31 - 40 \| British History Online
		The same day came John de Cestrehunte, "plumer," and acknowledged himself bound to Elias de Ponte and Ernald de Port in the sum of £4 for wine; to be paid, one moiety at Whitsuntide and the other at Michaelmas; and unless, andc.
		The same day the aforesaid Robert acknowledged himself bound to John le Roulers in the sum of £9; to be paid on the morrow or whenever demanded, andc.
		The same day Richard Aunketin, Walter de Lotheberi, and Andrew le Formager acknowledged themselves bound to Thomas de Vileneve in the sum of £14; to be paid, viz., £8 at Winchester Fair, and £6 at the Feast of All Saints; and unless, andc.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=33023 (6825 words)

	Folios 61 - 70 \| British History Online
		The same day came Andrew le Furmager and Peter le Furbur and acknowledged themselves bound to Richard de Ethon', clerk, in the sum of 40 s.; to be paid to the said Richard, or, in his absence from the City, to Thomas de Condut, viz., 10 s.
		The same day was read another writing whereby William de Durham demised to Richard le Poter a tenement in the parish of St. Michael de Crokedelane, situate between the tenements formerly belonging to Robert de "Uggele" and Robert Sotel.
		The same day was read a writing of agreement whereby Peter de Aldham and Sarah his wife demised and to ferm let to Alan the Baker a portion of the tenement formerly belonging to Stephen Costeyntem, in the parish of Aldermarichurche, situate near the tenement of Sir Henry le Waleys.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=33026 (5563 words)

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		Michaelmas also used to be the day in England for choosing magistrates and bailiffs, whereupon the people used to go into the streets and throw cabbage stalks at each other, in a ritual called
		In Ireland, where Michaelmas marked the end of the fishing season, the beginning of the hunting season, the traditional time to pick apples and also the time to make cider, St Michael’s feast was a joyful day of celebration.
		One day, Cormoran was calling for it, his unsuspecting and rather short-sighted spouse came to the doorway to announce dinner, and she it was who received the hammer!
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /michaelmas.html (3378 words)

	The Waldorf School of Atlanta
		September 29 is Michaelmas Day, the feast day of the Archangel Michael, who according to fifth century tradition tames a dragon to save the kingdom.
		Michaelmas is also observed in the classroom with stories, verses, and music containing themes of courage, inner strength, will, and deeds of goodness.
		As the waning days of autumn reach their darkest at the winter solstice, we yearn for the return of warmth and light.
	www.waldorfatlanta.org /festivals.htm (1381 words)

	St. Michael's Day
		The day is called St. Michael’s Day, and is usually observed by the Amish on October 11.
		Michael’s Day is celebrated in the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican churches on September 29th, and in the Greek church on November 8.
		When observed as a feast day, "Michaelmas" was celebrated with a meal of roast goose, a custom started hundreds of years ago when people included a goose in their rent payments to landlords.
	www.amishnews.com /amisharticles/michael.htm (496 words)

	September 2003 Holidays - School of the Seasons
		On the fourth day of the bright lunar fortnight of Bhadra.
		The following day, they draw a cross on their forehead with the charcoal from the demera fire, but this is not a solemn day but a day for feasting and visiting.
		Michaelmas daisy is the name given to flowers of the aster family which bloom at this time.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /septdays2.html (4861 words)

	September 2002 Holidays - School of the Seasons
		It is appropriate that her feast day falls in the same month as so many holy days honoring Mary, for she represents the feminine principle, otherwise missing in Christianity.
		On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
		Michaelmas became the fixed date for the feast otherwise associated with Autumn Equinox or the harvest.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /sepdays2.html (2653 words)

	Mindanao Festivals
		It is the Feast of Sacrifice, during which the wealthy among the Muslims are enjoined to sacrifice a sheep, a goat, or a bull in the name of Allah, and to distribute the meat among relatives, neighbors, and the poor.
		The Hari-Raya Hadji is also a day of prayer, of forgiveness, of charity, of family reunion, of rejoicing, and of general festivity.
		On Michaelmas Day people crowd the streets to watch the highlight of the celebration: a festive procession marked by the participation of comedia actors in their colorful costumes.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Tagalog/Mindanao_Culture/mindanao_festivals.htm (537 words)

	SACRED^SUNDAY^JOURNAL^092803 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the revised calendar, Michaelmas, is the Christian feast of St. Michael and all the Archangels.
		Michaelmas is one of the four Catholic holidays at the beginning of each season of the year, which were communally celebrated during the Age of Faith as great religious feasts. Michaelmas is a holy day of obligation and it's celebration is marked by hospitality, costumes, music and dancing.
		Michaelmas also fell around the time for apple picking in the orchards, so cider was traditionally brewed at this time of year. The Aster, also known as the "Michaelmas Daisy", is the flower that also usually blooms around this time of year.
	c1luv.com /SacredSundays2003/092803.html (1720 words)

	Medieval English urban history - Lynn by-laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the day after Michaelmas [election day] the chamberlains of the previous year shall hand over to the new chamberlains all the muniments and records belonging to the community.
		Chamberlains leaving office are to render their accounts within 8 days after Michaelmas, on a day to be assigned them by the mayor; the account is to be reviewed by the mayor, the new chamberlains, and those chosen by the community to act as auditors.
		Account rolls for 1341/42 and 1342/43 have not, regrettably, survived, but an improvement in the style of recording the accounts between the rolls of 1340/41 and 1343/44 is one reflection of the attempt to reform financial management.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/ly1342a.html (396 words)

	St. Michael's Day in Old Ireland -Irish Culture World Cultures European
		Michaelmas was also one of the regular quarter-days for settling rents and accounts; often, since this was also the time of the "geese harvest", many a farmer paid off his accounts with a brace or more of plump birds from the flock hatched in the spring.
		Michaelmas also marked the end of the fishing season, the beginning of the hunting season, the traditional time to pick apples and the time to make cider.
		The queen demanded a second bumper, and said, "Henceforth shall a goose commemorate this great victory." This tale is marred by the awkward circumstance that the thanksgiving sermon for the victory was preached at St. Paul's on the 20th August, and the fleet was dispersed by the winds in July.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACalend/Michaelmas.html (1320 words)

	Society for Creative Anachronism
		This was traditionally a day for "nutting," or gathering nuts in the woods.
		The day was often observed by eating a goose for dinner.
		In England, Michaelmas is one of the four quarterly court days, designating a quarterly court term: October 12 to December 12.
	www.geocities.com /winters_gate/gk/gkoct97.html (855 words)

	ORB - Florilegium urbanum - Politics - Procedures for electing and initiating a new administration
		It has been the custom on that Michaelmas day for the greater part of the council to dine with both mayors; that is, a large number of them with the new mayor, and others with the old mayor – in particular, all officials are to dine with the old mayor.
		It has also been the custom that on the day after Michaelmas the new mayor, the sheriff and certain of their colleagues go to the Counter and summon before them the bailiffs, town clerk, steward, and all the sergeants of Bristol, together with the gatekeepers of the town.
		It has also been the custom, on that fourth day after Michaelmas and in the days following, for the mayor to have summoned to appear before him all the masters of the bakers, brewers, butchers and other crafts of the town.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/towns/florilegium/government/gvpoli13.html (3477 words)

	September 29th
		In Blount's Tenures, it is noted in the tenth year of Edward IV, that John de la Hay was bound to pay to William Barnaby, Lord of Lastres, in the county of Hereford, for a parcel of the demesne lands, one goose fit for the lord's dinner, on the feast of St. Michael the archangel.
		It is easy to see how a general custom of having a goose for dinner on Michaelmas Day might arise from the multitude of these presents, as land-lords would of course, in most cases, have a few to spare for their friends.
		Michaelmas Day, 1613, is remarkable in the annals of London, as the day when the citizens assembled to witness, and celebrate by a public pageant, the entrance of the New River waters to the metropolis.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/sept/29.htm (4116 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 09/16/2003: "Michaelmas"
		Michaelmas Day, perhaps more formally known as the Feast of St Michael the Archangel, was one of the most important days of the year.
		The association with geese arises because Queen Elizabeth I was eating goose on this day when she received news of the defeat of the Spanish Armada; at the celebratory meal which followed the victory, goose was eaten and thus it became customary to eat goose on Michaelmas Day.
		Indeed, lots of landlords used to hold goose feasts for their tenants on this day because Michaelmas Day was one of the quarter days when rents were due.
	www.nicholasrhea.co.uk /author/archives/00000012.html (904 words)

	High Days and Holidays
		Michaelmas was a natural time of year, after the harvest, for rejoicing and relaxation.
		In 1985, Mrs Mabel Nickels recalled that in her younger days the village was visited by a fun fair which was held on the 'Knob', an open piece of ground on the corner of Church Street and Bowleys Lane, where Adelaide House and No. 1 Bowleys Lane now stand.
		Before the days of the combined harvester, the first mechanical means of harvesting was by using an adapted horse-drawn hay mower with a rack to collect sufficient straws to form a sheaf, which was then off-loaded and bound by hand with a band of straw.
	www.applebymagna.org.uk /appleby_history/in_focus24.htm (3807 words)

	Customs of the Post-Pentecost Season
		Even the birthday's location in the year is profoundly significant: because of the summer solstice, the days begin to grow shorter and shorter after his birthday.
		Most likely the oldest and certainly the highest annual feast day of Mary, the Feast of the Assumption is held in both east and west as a day of great solemnity.
		Michaelmas also coincided with the " quarter days " in Northern Europe, one of the four times in the year when free men would sit in court, make laws, and pay rents.
	www.holytrinitygerman.org /postpentecostcustoms.htm (3323 words)

	Chelsfield Goose Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That is on the vigil day and morrow of St. James the Apostle.
		Michaelmas Day, properly named the day of Michael and All Angels, is a great festival of the Roman Church and also observed as a feast by the Church of England.
		Indeed, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have been eating her Michaelmas goose when the news of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was brought to her.
	www.goosefair.co.uk (486 words)

	Mystical-WWW : September Day to Day
		'Michaelmas Day' : One English (UK) tradition associated with this day is to serve goose with the main meal of the day as the colour of the bones were seen to provide an omen of future events.
		Traditionally this day is associated with the folklore of leaves.
		Days throughout the year were identified and of course could have related to any day of the week.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /time/sepday2.htm (927 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some sources believe that Michaelmas Day, the feast of St Michael the Archangel, was deliberately placed close to the date of the equinox to encourage the pagan Celts to convert.
		Michaelmas was one of the traditional days when three-monthly rents were due and when contracts were made or renewed.
		It was a very popular feast day in England and even in present times, the autumn term English universities and schools is called the &#8216;Michaelmas Term’.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/10674/82211 (277 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| September 29 \| Michaelmas St Michael William Topaz ...
		Rogation Days are a prime source of dragon legends in Britain.
		The story was long told that the reason that people eat goose at Michaelmas is that when Queen Elizabeth I was dining with Sir Neville Umfreyville on September 29, 1588, she heard news that the Spanish Armada had been defeated.
		It was commemorated for centuries on March 24, the day before the Annunciation (or, Lady Day, which remembers the day Mary conceived Jesus), but has been transferred by the Catholic Church to September 29, which Gabriel now shares with fellow archangels, Michael and Raphael.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/sep29.html (3957 words)

	Michaelmas-Learn More-Alice's Medieval Feasts & Fasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His feast was celebrated with a traditional well-fattened goose which had fed well on the stubble of the fields after the harvest.
		By Michaelmas the harvest had to be completed and the new cycle of farming would begin.
		On the manors at Michaelmas, a reeve was elected from among the peasants to keep watch over the work and to assure that production was up to expectation.
	mw.mcmaster.ca /scriptorium/alice_site/michaelmas_more_end.html (196 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE OPEN GATE CHAPTER XLI IT WAS MICHAELMAS DAY Not a cloud in the sky, and, ruling all, a sweet sun, liberal in warmth and eager in brightness as its distance from the northern world decreased.
		Flynn's greeting, for there were ringing in her ears the words she herself had said a few days before: "It is good to live, isn't it?" To-day it was so good to live that life seemed an endless being and a tireless happy doing--a gift of labour, an inspiring daytime, and a rejoicing sleep.
		To-day she had even repeated phrases he had used.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/gp74w10.txt (16323 words)

	Michaelmas
		One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar and one of the English quarter days.
		It is also used in the extended sense of " autumn ", so Michaelmas is also the name of the first term in the Cambridge and Oxford academic year which starts around this date.
		The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michaelmas.html (296 words)

	Permanent exhibition - System of chronology
		George's Day (the 23rd of April) and ended on Michaelmas Day (the 29th of September).
		However, it was not until last century that the earlier subdivision of the day based on the light and dark time and the meals was replaced by the notion of "hour".
		In the course of time only those days retained their importance that were connected with a larger number of rituals or games.
	www.erm.ee /vanast/pysi/engpages/krono.html (1033 words)

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