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LADY DAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 62 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LADY
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DAY  , originally the name for all the days in the
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church
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calendar marking any event in the Virgin
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Mary's
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life, but now restricted to the feast of the
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Annunciation, held on the 25th of
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March in each
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year .
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Lady
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Day was in
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medieval and later times the beginning of the legal year in
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England . In 1752 this was altered to the 1st of
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January, but the 25th of March remains oneof the
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Quarter Days; though in some parts old Lady Day, on the 6th of
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April, is still the date for
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rent paying . See ANNUNCIATION .

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