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Pleased to See the King: Twelfth Night, Paganism and the Execution of King Charles I
This year’s celebratory Christmas post from the ‘Lord Thomas Grey’s Regiment of Foot’ English Civil War blogspot looked at Puritan attitudes to the Festive Season; with particular reference to Parliament’s decision, in 1644, to replace the usual Christmas festivities with what is generally referred to in the language of the time as a ‘Solemn Fast’. Continue reading
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