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 between the trustees of the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and Mr James Meredith of Manchester, for the labour of two hundred children in "pin-making," for a term of eleven years, it was stipulated that the following holidays should be allowed the boys:—

Christmas, fourteen days, (for amusement). Good Friday. Easter, two afternoons, and from three o'clock the third day. Whitsuntide, the same. Shrove Tuesday. Ash Wednesday. Conversion of St Paul, 25th January. King Charles' martyrdom, 30th January. Purification, 2d February. St Mathias, 24th February. Annunciation (Ladyday), 25th March. St Mark, 25th April. St Philip and St James, 1st May. Ascension-day (Holy Thursday). Restoration of King Charles (Royal Oak-day), 29th May. St Barnabas, 11th June. St John the Baptist (Midsummer-day), 24th June.

St James (July 25), Liverpool summer fair. St Bartholomew, 24th August. St Matthew, 21st September. St Michael (Michaelmas quarter-day), 29th September. Liberty-day. St Luke, 18th October. King's inauguration. St Simon and St Jude, 28th October. All-Saints, 1st November.

Gunpowder Plot, 5th November. Martinmas (Liverpool winter fair), November 11.