November 17th, the day of the aecession of QueenElizabeth. first publicly celebrated in 1570, and still kept as a holiday at the Exchequer, as it was at Westminster school.
“A rumour is spread in the court, and hath come to the eares of some of the most honourable counsell, how that I on the Queen’s daylast past did forbidd in our college an oration to bee made in praise of Her Majesty’s government, etc.”—Dr. Whittaker to Lord Burghley (May 14th, 1590).
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