Candlemas was one of four days in the legal year when the courts sat for no business, the others being Ascension Day, Midsummer Day and All Saints’ Day. The inns of court kept them as grand days, the two universities as gaudy days, and the king’s court at St James’s as collar days, when knights wore the collars of their orders. Hone set this out in his account of the law terms, beginning with Candlemas in Hilary term.
Grand days, gaudy days and collar days
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These are termed Grand days in the inns of court ; and Gaudy days at the two universities ; they are observed as Collar days at the king’s court of St. James’s
From Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. 1, cols. 99-100. Read the original
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