March, the first month of the Roman year, and the third according to our present calendar, consists of thirty-one days. It was considered as the first month of the year in England until the change of style in 1752, and the legal year was reckoned from the 25th March. Its last three days (old style) were once popularly supposed to have been borrowed by March from April, and are proverbially stormy.
March
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 38
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