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?a1400 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1915) II. 13 (MED) Feoda custodum fori de Thoresdaymarket.

a1425 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Bodl.) l. 7282 (MED) Also falle men yn plyght Þat sitte vp on þe þursday nyght And ouerlong ete flesshe & drunke After þat mydnyght ys runge.

1547 in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) III. 528 Untill the thursday nyght beyng the xvij^th day of Novemb last past.

1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. i. 19 I request you to meete mee on Thursday morning next, at fiue or sixe, on horse-backe, or on foote with your Sword.

1656 in R. B. Gardiner Admission Reg. St. Paul's School 1748–1876 (1884) 382 (note) [At Newport..it was provided that] each Thursday afternoon..shall be a remedy or time of recreation.

1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 274 All the Thursday Morning was taken up in private Transfers.

1761 London Chron. 24–26 Dec. 622/2 Thursday night three highwaymen stopped several waggons on Northall Common.

1841 N. Hawthorne Famous Old People 35 Ever since the settlement of Massachusetts, there has been no school on Thursday afternoons.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 452/2 The Chicago Barge Club met Thursday evening, and the results of the storm fully discussed.

1899 Mrs. H. Fraser in Book Lover Apr. 3/1 I think I was born under the star of long journeys, a ‘Thursday bairn that has far to go’.

1949 K. Ferrier Let. 9 Nov. (2003) iii. 99 Home before you receive this but shoot off to Scotland Thursday night.

1988 M. Dunford & J. Holland Real Guide Amsterdam (1989) ii. vi. 163 Lined with cafes, restaurants, and teenagers blaring disco music on boom-boxes, it really gets going with the Thursday general market.

2007 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 16 Mar. 39 Call in at St Mary's Church for a coffee and a chat from 10am to 12 noon every Thursday morning during the weekly farmers' market.