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Christmas, the Christians grand feast: : its original, growth, and observation, also of Easter, Whitsontide, and other holydayes modestly discussed and determined. Also the beginning of the yeare, and other things observable. Where also among other learned men, you have the judgment of those eminent men; Josephus Scaliger, Rodulphus Hospinian, Matthæus Beroaldus, Joh. Causabon, Doct. Fulk, M. Cartwright, Alsted, Hugh Broughton, Master Mead. /

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Main Author:	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?
Other Authors:	Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609, Hospinian, Rudolf, 1547-1626, Beroald, Matthieu, d. 1576, Fulke, William, 1538-1589, Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638, Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612, Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638, Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for Richard Wodenoth at the Star under Peters Church in Cornhill, 1651.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Holidays > Early works to 1800. Fasts and feasts > Church of England > Early works to 1800.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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