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

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