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Old England

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This term was first used in 1641, twenty-one years after our American colony of New Virginia received the name of New England.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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