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oel Berson wrote: > I have done a little more examination of "pope|pope's day|night" and > "fifth of November". That confirms my impression that "fifth of > November" was most common. "Pope Day" was also used, but "Pope's Day" > rarely. "Pope Night" was not contemporary (two instances I found were > 1841), and "Pope's Night" was not used. > > I searched EAN, EAI, and ECCO. The numbers are small, particularly for > EAI and ECCO, and thus not very reliable for comparison purposes. Here is "POPE-NIGHT" on one of the two surviving 1760s broadsides from Boston, as preserved in the Library of Congress's American Memory Collection website: <<http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe03/rbpe036/03602800/001dr.jpg>> At the bottom this broadside says "Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston." The only thing worse than the verse on this broadside is the history it recounts (it dates the attempt on Parliament to 1588, which was actually when the Spanish Armada sailed). All told, I take this and the other broadside as the closest we have to a contemporaneous document from the participants themselves rather than adults commenting on them. J. L. Bell Boston1775@earthlink.net Unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution at <http://www.boston1775.net>. --
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