Hocktide

Hocktide (also Hock tide or Hoke Day) is the Monday and Tuesday in the second week after Easter.^[1] It was an English medieval festival; both the Tuesday and the preceding Monday were the Hock-days. Together with Whitsuntide and the twelve days of Christmastide, 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.^[2]