See quotations.
1842. The little boys of Amesbury and Salisbury, have a celebration which, so far as I know, is peculiar to themselves. It is the observance of Pope Night, or the Fifth of November, by bonfires upon the hills, shoutings, and all such demonstrations of rejoicing…. You will quite as often hear the younkers call it Poke Night, as any thing else.—‘Lowell Offering,’ ii. 111–2.
1903. It is possible that [Joyce Junior] continued to parade the streets of Boston on Pope-day.—Mr. Albert Matthews, in ‘Publ. Col. Soc. Mass.,’ viii. 104. (See also xii. 288–95, March, 1909).
