From the Book - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
A note on dates, spelling and money
Lady Day 1509: time to pay your debts
Easter: to everything a time and place
St George's Day: an education
May: 'Youth must have some dalliance'
Midsummer: 'All England is in ecstasies'
Lammas: good and bad lordship
All Saints and All Souls: 'We are but dust, and die we must'
Christmas: Feast and fast
Plough Day: 'Fear God, honour the king'
Shrove: contrition and suspicion
Lady Day 1510: Conception
1510 and beyond: Fortune's wheel.