HOKE-DAY, the Tuesday after easter-week; which was the day on which the English conquered and expelled the Danes: this was therefore kept as a day of rejoicing; and a duty, called hoke-tuesday money, was paid to the landlord, for giving his tenants and bondmen leave to celebrate it.
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