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March
To March and April from morning to night;
In sowing and setting, good huswives delight;
To have in a garden or other like plot;
To trim up their house, and to furnish their plot.
Spare meadow at Gregory, marshes at Pasque;
Then hedge them ad ditch them, bestow theron fence;
Sow barley in March, in April, and May.
March day or wet, Hop-ground go set;
Now leeks are in season, for pottage full good.
Geld lambs now all straight as they fall.
Wish doves good luck, rear goose and duck.(1)
Continuing to plant the spring crops (to be finished by either the Annunciation or Easter). Warfare might begin if weather permitted it.
| 1 | Sancti Donati(4)(5)(7) et Sancti Leonis(4); Sancti /Devvi(7)/Davidi(11)(13) confessoris(2) (David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales (c.544)); Sancti Albini(4)(7)(12) episcopi et confessoris; Sancti Ceaddani episcopi; Swithbert | ||
| 2 | Sancti Ceadda(4)(7)(11)(12)(13) episcopi (Chad, Bishop of Lichfield (672)); Adriani martiris(5); Joavan | ||
| 3 | Ailred(6) of Rievaulx; Non; Sanctorum Winwalei(4) (Winwaloe), Felici(5); Floriani; Albini, episcopi(5); dies egyptiacus(3) | ||
| 4 | Sanctorum dccc martirum(3)(4)(5)(7); Victoris(5); Adriani(7) (Adrien of May); Casimir; Owin | ||
| 5 | Saturnini(5); Sancte Eusebii(4)(5)(7); Sancti Foci martyris; Ciaran of Saighir; Pierani (13)(Piran); vi embolismi endg...(4)/Endecadis vii embolismi(3) | ||
| 6 | Victoris(7); Translatio Sancte Cyniburg (Translation of Cyneburg); Baldred and Billfrith; Chrodergang; Fridolin; Tibba; Ogdoadis iii embolismi(3)(4); Ultima ii lune initii(5) | ||
| 7 | Sancte Perpetue(2)(3)(4)(7)(11)(12)(13) et Felicitate(2)(3)(4)(7)(11)(12)(13)(Perpetua and Felicity and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage (202)); Eosturwine; Thomas Aquinas(6) (Priest and Friar (1274)); i incensio xiii lune pas(5) | ||
| 8 | Sancti Felice confessoris(2) (Felix); Cyril(6) and Methodius(6), Missionaries to the Slavs (869, 885); Duthac; John of God; Senan; Candide virginis(5); Primo incensio lunae pascalis(3)(4); Ultima incensio ii luna initii(7) | ||
| 9 | Passio sanctorum xl militum (Forty Martyrs of Sebaste)(4)(5)(7); Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa (c.394); Bosa; Constantine; Frances of Rome | ||
| 10 | Kessog; Sanctae Candide(4); Martiani(5) et Gorgoni(5) martirum | ||
| 11 | Sancti Gurdiani(3)/Gordiani(4) martiris; Oengus | ||
| 12 | (Gregory's Day); Sacti Gregorii pape(2)(3)(4)(5)(7)(11)(12)(13) (Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome (604)); Alpherge; Mura; Paul Aurelian | ||
| 13 | Sancti Cyriaci diaconi(7); Gerald of Mayo; Mochocmoc | ||
| 14 | Sancti Leonis(3)(4)(7) et Sancti Hilarii(3)(4) episcopi | ||
| 15 | Sancti Longi martyris (Longinus); Louis de Marillac; Zacharias | ||
| 16 | Sancti Eugenie virginis(4); Finan Lobur | ||
| 17 | Sancti Patrici(3)(4)(5)(7)(11) episcopi et confessoris (Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, (461)); Ciriaci(3); Sancti Pancrati, episcopi (Pancras); Sancte Wiburge virginis (Withburga); Sancte Alexandri episcopis et martyris | ||
| 18 | Passio Sancti Eadwardi regis et martyris(2)(4)(5)(11) (Edward the King); Sancti
Pancrati, episcopi (Pancras)(3); Sancti Timothei(4); Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem (386);
Christian; Finan of Aberdeen; Primus dies Seculi(7) ["Sheelah's Day"] | ||
| 19 | Joseph; Alcemund; Sancti Edwardi regis et martyris; Theodoli, episcopi(5) | ||
| 20 | Sancti Cuthbaerhti confessoris(3)(4)(5)(7)(11)(12)(13) (Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne (687)); Herbert of Derwentwater; Wulfram | ||
| 21 | Sancti Benedicti abbatis(2)(3)(4)(5)(7)(8)(11)(12)(13) (Benedict); Enda [Vernal Equinox; Ostara/Eostre; Ostarun; Mean Earrach; Lady Day] [Vernal Equinox - Modern] | ||
| 22 | Sedis epactarum(3); Prima pasca Sedes epactarum(4); Sedes Aepactarum(7) | ||
| 23 | Adam creatus est(3)(4); Sancti Albini(3)(4); Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, (c.332); Gwinear; Turibius; Ethilwald/Oidilwald of Farne(6) | ||
| 24 | Dunchad; Hildelith; Macartan; Locus concurrencium(4) equincium(3); Concurrentium Locus(7) | ||
| 25 | Annunciatio Sancte Marie(2)(3)(4)(5)(7)(11)(12)(13) (The Feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the
Blessed Virgin Mary; The Feast of Our Lady in Lent; "Lady Day");
Alfwold; Crucifixio(4);
Equinoctium (Equinox)(4)(7);
Aequinoctium vernum(32) (Vernal Equinox) [Beginning of the New Year in England.] | ||
| 26 | Luidger; William of Norwich; Eulalie, virginis(5) | ||
| 27 | Resurectio Domini(3)(4)(7) | ||
| 28 | ... | ||
| 29 | Ordinacio beati Gregorii pape(3)(4); Natali Sancti Columbani (Nativity of Columani); Gwynllyw and Gwladys | ||
| 30 | Ordinatio sancti Gregorii papae(7); Eulalie virginis(3); Osburga; John Climacus; Domni(4) et Palatini(4); Translatio Sancti Eadmundi (Translation of Edmund) | ||
| 31 | Sancti Felicis(4); Sancti Domini(7); Hic Translatus est Sanctus Rex Eadmundus Ab (Translation of King Edmund) |