Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — Thanksgiving In Cromwell’s Day. [ARTICLE]

Thanksgiving In Cromwell’s Day.

That Thanksgiving day was 2'Y» years ago popularly and generally observed in England is well shown by the following passage: For Hudibras who thought he 'ad won The field as certain as a gun And, having routed the; whole troop. With victory was cock-a-hoop. Thinking he 'ad done enough to purchase Thanksgiving day among the churches. Thus wrote Butler in 1651, during Oliver Cromwell’s tenure of power, and It clearly proves that at a time when the observance of the day was but Just beginning to be regularly kept in this country, the English recognized the day very generally as one of joy and feasting.