Activities, and each Christmas a beggar or student was temporarily put in charge, after being crowned the lord of misrule. The rest of the peasantry also got their once-a-year chance to grab power from the ruling classes.
They would go around to the houses of the rich or they would beg on the doors and demand entry and once they were let in, the warder of the manner have to give them the best stuffs that he had. He had to give them his best food, he had to give them his best beer, his best, of everything. But if he didn t, they would threaten or actually perform a trick.
One surviving Christmas song says that if you don t give us what we want, then damn will come butler bowl and all.
Some of the strangers think that the performance safety it out. You might say that the wealthy men could make up for an entire year. Of small or large in justices to the poor by giving a generous Christmas handout. Just once in a year.
The rules of Christmas would soon change, however. As a wave of religious reform swept through England in the early 17th century.
Led by OCW, the puritans overthrew the king s forces in 1645 and vowed to rid England of all that with decadent. High on their list was English Christmas and in 1652 they outlawed it altogether. Shops were ordered to stay open. Churches were forced to stay closed.
The puritans were always, I think, deeply attracted to those things that they were most opposed to. They had a fear that they might have too good of a time. I don t mean to tribulise but there was a deep fear that if these things were legalized. they themselves might enjoy them, the manured source will be lost.
The puritans may have set good riddance to Christmas, but the people never really stop celebrating it. The holiday nearly went underground, if Christmas pie was illegal it began to be known as mince pie instead which was just as delicious.
The deeply need for Christmas in the human heart, the need for celebration at that time of darkness. Those needs made the battle against Christmas gave it a few temporary wins, but it couldn t possibly secure a final victory.
In 1656 the man of canton candleberry past a resolution saying that if they could not have their Christmas day, they would have the king back on his throne.
They soon got their wish, the monarchy was restored with Charles the second, and Christmas was restored with him. It seems the English could live without a king, but not without Christmas.
It has been out of it, that all the reason for the restoration of the monarchy is because by restoring a monarch, also restored Christmas, restored the proper English Christmas, with its , its virtues, its traditions and its carousing. Christmas is drove back, if you like by popular acclaim.
note: 1.misrule vt.施暴政n.暴政
2. A deliverance from or removal of something unwanted or undesirable:摆脱，解脱：从不需要的或不理想的事情中解脱或消除：
“Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides”
“康姆派森轻松地认为，它对双方都是一个很好的解脱”
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