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It may not therefore be improper to assure you, on the word of a gentleman, that no part of my estate was ever mortgaged: and that although I lived very expensively abroad, and made large draughts, yet that Midsummer-day next will discharge all that I owe in the world.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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A draft of a petition to his majesty on the subject of parliament had been put forward at the Common Hall held on Midsummer-day.
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When Midsummer-day arrived, the common sergeant having asked the Court of Aldermen for instructions as to how to proceed to the elections, was ordered to "pursue such directions as he should receive from the sheriffes, and in his report of the elections, to declare it as the report of the said sheriffes."
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On Midsummer-day, 1680, the mayor elected George Hockenhall, citizen and grocer, to be one of the sheriffs, but Hockenhall refused to serve and was discharged on his entering into a bond for the payment of £400.
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In view of the elections which were to take place on Midsummer-day, 1691,
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For a time he managed to escape service of the writ, (1495) but if he was not served before, his presence in the Common Hall on Midsummer-day for the election of new sheriffs afforded ample opportunity to serve him then.
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It happened to be Midsummer-day, when a great fair was held at Chester, the humours of which, it should seem, the worthy constable, witless of his lord's peril, was then enjoying.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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M781 Pilkington and others fined for disturbance last Midsummer-day, 16
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French fleet off Sluys, on Midsummer-day, 1340, and which is supposed to have suggested to Edward the idea of claiming superiority over every other maritime power -- a dominion which his successors have now maintained for nearly five hundred years.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 Various
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Among these was a plan for seizing the king at Greenwich on Midsummer-day, 1603.
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