Abstract
It was our purpose to show how the seasonality of baptisms can be employed to assess the speed with which holy days disappeared in early modern England. In a case study of Ludlow Shropshire it was demonstrated that old Catholic holy days exercised a strong but slowly declining influence on the timing of conceptions before outbreak of the Civil War. After the Restoration no connection between the seasonality of conceptions and old feast days can be discerned. These findings lend support to De Vriess hypothesis that labor input in the English economy between 1500 and 1700 must have increased very considerably. (EXCERPT)
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