CHAPTER I. PAGETHE ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRISTMAS 5CHAPTER II.The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival 10CHAPTER III.Early Christmas Celebrations in Britain 23CHAPTER IV.Christmas, From the Norman Conquest To Magna Charta 40(A.D. 1066-1215.)CHAPTER V.Christmas, From Magna Charta To the End of the Wars of the Roses (A.D. 1215-1485.) 62CHAPTER VI.Christmas Under Henry VII. and Henry VIII. 94(A.D. 1485-1547.)CHAPTER VII.Christmas Under Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth 115(A.D. 1547-1603.)CHAPTER VIII.Christmas Under James I. 151(A.D. 1603-1625.)CHAPTER IX.Christmas Under Charles the First and the Commonwealth 197(A.D. 1625-1660.)CHAPTER X.Christmas, From the Restoration To the Death Of George II.(A.D. 1660-1760.) 215CHAPTER XI.Modern Christmases at Home 240CHAPTER XII.Modern Christmases Abroad 294CHAPTER XIII.Concluding Carol Service of the Nineteenth Century 349