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day_n	december_n	hour_n	minute_n	6,433	5	13.1562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89194	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. / By Thomas Mocket; sometimes of Queens Colledge in Cambridge, and Mr. of Arts in both the Universities; and now pastor of Gildeston in Hartfordshire. Novemb. 26, 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?.; 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.	1651 (1651)	Wing M2304; Thomason E619_4; ESTC R202886	21,287	27

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