† Rope Monday Obs.
[f. rope n.1: see note to Hocktide.]
= Hock Monday.
Occurs freq. in the Maldon records, and is clearly the Monday following the second Sunday after Easter.
| 1403 Maldon Court-Rolls Bundle 1 No. 5, Die lune proximo ante festum apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi videlicet Ropemoneday. 1463 ― Liber B. fol. viii b, At the Courte holde at Maldon, with the lete, on the Monday callyd Ropemonday. 1468 ― Court-Rolls Bundle 44 No. 4, Die lune vocata Ropemondaye secundo die Maii. |