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Studley
Mop Fair: hiring fair around 28 Sept. Fourteen days before Old Michaelmas
in early nineteenth century. 33 In mid-nineteenth century it was also a fair for
cattle and sheep, formerly 8 Sept., Feast of Nativity of the Virgin in ‘Dr
Thomas’ time’. 34
Tardebigge
Headless Cross Cherry Wake: 2 nd Sat. in July until twentieth century. 35
Redditch Fairs: 1 st Mon. in August and 3 rd Mon. in Sept., both for cattle in
mid-nineteenth century. Fairs in the seventeenth century on St Stephen’s Day and
Sun. after feast of St Peter ad Vincula. 36 Redditch Fair (or ‘Meeting’) for buying and
selling all sorts of cattle and a mop for hiring servants, in 3 rd week of Sept. in 1762. 37
Welford
Wake: 2 nd Mon. following St Peter’s Day. 38
33 WaRO, DR399/271/17, Salford Priors settlements.
34 VCH Warwickshire, vol. iii, p. 179. Dr Thomas’s time meaning circa 1730.
35 Information from Graham Downie of Studley. Also, A. Foxall, Old Redditch Pubs, p. 203.
36 VCH Worcestershire, vol. iii, p. 224.
37
Berrow’s Worcester Journal 16 Sept 1762.
38 J. Fendley, ed., ‘Notes on the Diocese of Gloucester by Chancellor Richard Parsons c.1700’, p. 47.
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