Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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In the 1559 and 1662 Book of Common Prayer “The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-Birth, Commonly called Churching of Women.” http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/occasion/women.html
This rite was discussed in annotations on
27 September 1661 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/09/27/ and
16 November 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1662/11/16/