Royal Maundy pence to each of fifty poor men. It is not known, however, whether it was as yet the practice each year to have the number of pence and the number of recipients track the monarch's age: Henry IV was the first monarch to decree that the number of pence given be determined by the monarch's age. The ceremony was not always performed on Maundy Thursday; it could be postponed a day to Good Friday by royal command, as it was in 1510. Nobles could hold their own Maundy distributions, as did Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland in the early
The Day After Judgment The Day After Judgment The Day After Judgment is a 1971 fantasy novel by American writer James Blish. It is a sequel to the 1968 novel "Black Easter": they have been subsequently republished in 1990 as a single book called "The Devil's Day". "Black Easter" and "The Day After Judgment" were written with the assumption that the ritual magic for commanding demons, as described in grimoires, actually works. In the first book, a wealthy arms manufacturer comes to a black magician, Theron Ware, with a strange request: he wishes to release all the demons from Hell on Earth for one