xmas

In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations, ye Scholars study at a rate of an hour and a Quarter each day & all yt go home have proportionable Tasks set them...

A thousand thanks, merry Xmasses & happy New Years to you for yʳ delightful letter: […]

On Xmas Day I breakfasted with Davy, with the intention of dining with you...

N:Castle (Xmassing and wanted at play)

I wᵈ not have you think yᵗ we have no Xmassing here; we have had as large a round of dinners at Pau as we could have at Welsbourn (tho perhaps (to me) not quite so pleasant).

Barking, Saturday, Nov. 29. / Dear and Respected Master, / Excusez ma “franchise,” but “Essence of Parliament” is this week represented by ˣ⁄ₓ, and that’s the reason Y. So no more at present from Your