Michaelmas Day. On this festival, which was instituted in the year 487 in honour of St Michael and all Angels, is elected the Lord Mayor of London. In England, too, Michaelmas Day is one of the four quarterly terms on which rents are paid; and among the curious manorial rites connected with this season may be mentioned the Lawless Court kept on King's Hill, near Rochford, in Essex, on the Wednesday morning following Michaelmas Day. The Michaelmas goose is an ancient institution. For Michaelmas term, see TERM.
Michaelmas Day.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 174
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