Croyland/Crowland Chronicle
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With Christmas now upon us, and the clocks ticking away until Santa clambers down our chimneys, here’s a link—https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14068977/Tales-royal-Christmases-Merry-Monarch-celebrations-cancelled-Queen-Christmas-tree.html—to an article about royal Christmases from the 15th century right to the present day. There is one particular medieval Christmas to which our attention is drawn. I quote from the Daily Mail article: “….It [the celebration]…