Michaelmas

"‘You may buy them and welcome, my good chaplain, if you can find the money; but as for me, I am yet seeking a way to pay for my turquoise necklace, and the statue of Daphne at the end of the bowling-green, and the Indian parrot that my black boy brought me last Michaelmas from the Bohemians—so you see I’ve no money to waste on trifles;’ [...]"[1]

Michaelmas is "the holy day in honour of St Michael, 29 September" in the religious canon of the Christian Church.[2]

[1] Wharton 1901, p. 10