Bank Holidays, appointed by Sir John Lubbock's Act of 1871, fall in England and Ireland on Easter Monday, Whit-Monday, the first Monday in August, and 26th December; in Scotland, on Christmas and New-year's Days, Good Friday, and the first Mondays of May and August.
Bank Holidays
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 707
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