Word: merrymount
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...