Ascensiontide

In 1250 William de Birmingham gained permission to hold a fair for three days about Ascensiontide.

In 1153 it was granted the right to hold a weekly market and by 1259 had obtained a charter to hold an annual fair at Ascensiontide.

A description of the institution and character of the Ascensiontide rogations is given by Sidonius Apollinaris.

Ordinary Time: Stories of the Days Between Ascensiontide and Advent (Upper Room Books, 1988)

The stick is lifted erect and the earth is supposedly made fertile, for these summer days, as well as being Ascensiontide, are Rogationtide, when the people traditionally prayed that the crops would be made to flourish.

The hymn tune "St Magnus", usually sung at Ascensiontide to the text "The head that once was crowned with thorns", was written by Jeremiah Clarke in 1701 and named for the church.

Trubleville was reappointed seneschal of Gascony on 23 May 1234, and was ordered to be at Portsmouth by Ascensiontide to command a force destined to help Peter, Count of Brittany.

The Cowley Carol Book was edited by George Ratcliffe Woodward and was published in 1901 and 1919, in two parts, ('First' and 'Second' Series), and was subtitled as a selection of carols "for Christmas, Easter and Ascensiontide".