[0d] Accounts of this fight, extracted from the Times and Morning Herald, are given in Hone’s ‘Every Day Book,’ vol. i., 1826.
[0e] References to the attempts of the authorities to suppress this fair will be found in the Times of Tuesday, May 24, 1825, and a description of the fair of 1825 is given in Hone’s ‘Every Day Book’ of the following year (1826).
[0f] Borrow says ‘two or three days passed by in much the same manner as the first.’ Since one of these days was Sunday, the latter seems the more probable; but if only two days passed, then Borrow must have left London one day later—i.e., Wednesday, May 25, 1825.
[0g] The fair-town lay, therefore, to the east of Willenhall.
[0h] For these astronomical calculations I am indebted to my colleague, Mr. W. E. Plummer, of the Liverpool Observatory.
[0i] ‘Life of Borrow,’ i. 104.
[0j] His calculation, for instance, gives one day too many at Salisbury, and places the poison episode and the Sunday with the preacher, which were two consecutive days, on the 8th and 12th respectively!
[0k] This is the date given in Knapp’s ‘Life of Borrow,’ and also as a page heading in his edition of ‘Lavengro,’ p. 289. But in a note to his edition of ‘The Romany Rye,’ p. 385, he says that the fair was ‘on Easter-Monday’ (April 3).
[0l] Thorpe’s ‘Environs of London,’ p. 48.
[0m] See chapter xxiv.