Citation - Boston News Letter: 1754.05.16

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Index Entry Bells, in Oxfordshire, rung, with confusion over date of Christmas 
Location Oxfordshire 
Citation
BNL.754.006
16 May 1754:11 (2706)
London. March 6.  Letters from Oxfordshire, advise, that
their Christmas lasted three weeks.  The clergy kept new
Christmas; and the mob kept the old:  some went to church,
sat mute the usual time of prayers, sang psalms at the
proper intervals, rang the bells and got drunk at night.


Generic Title Boston News Letter 
Date 1754.05.16 
Publisher Draper, John 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1754 
Bibliography B0009382
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