Together with Whitsuntide and the twelve days of Yuletide the week following Easter marked the only vacations of the husbandman's year, during slack times in the cycle of the year when the villein ceased work on his lord's demesne, and most likely on his own land as well.
Hocktide |
In London, Rogation Days, just like Easter or Hocktide, were times when begging was "legitimate" for the period of celebration.