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Show Christmas in British Isles Christmas was introduced in what l now the British Isles under the Saxon rulers and was continued, in j16 winter solstice when the people little to do, by the Anglo-Saxon 'jigs and the succeeding monarehs of "orman blood. The celebrations be-Mnlng be-Mnlng Wth court festivities and dilating down to the poorest fami-were fami-were frequently uproarious. In reign of Elizabeth the Puritans at-jed at-jed the Yuletlde festivities, but celebrations continued to flourish patl the rule of Queen Mary. The lrltans, aided by the conditions ""wing out of civil war, finally sucked suc-ked by 1647 In abolishing the holi-George holi-George Newell Moran. |