rent.
I suppose a progressive pope might have decreed that the eleven days stuck
should include the day rent was due, letting everyone live some three weeks
rent free.
It is interesting to note that the days of the week were not skipped, so
that the day following Thursday, October 4, 1582 b
Message text written by Frank Evans
>but the real trouble was that the next quarter day, the day the rent was
due, was going to arrive eleven days early, a most unwelcome fact.<
Because of that the settlement date was indeed moved from the quarter day
and that is also why in Britain the
1752, when Great Britain (and
> the American colonies) tranferred from the Julian to the Gregorian
> calendar the difference had drifted on a further day and eleven days
> were removed in those countries, hence the cry:"Give us back our eleven
> days".
>
> Of course, s
difference had drifted on a further day and eleven days
were removed in those countries, hence the cry:"Give us back our eleven
days".
Of course, some simple folk felt that eleven days of their lives had
been stolen and there are always people ready for a good punch-up
(Britain at that time
