Thursday, August 5th, according to an ancient custom, a silver arrow, value £3, was shot for at the butts on Harrow-on-the-Hill, by six youths of the Free School, in archery habits, and won by a son of Captain Brown, commander of an East Indiaman. This diversion was the gift of John Lyon, Esq., founder of the said school.
Aug. 6.] BLACK-CHERRY FAIR.
Aug. 6.]
BLACK-CHERRY FAIR.
Surrey.
Henry VI., in the eighteenth year of his reign (1440), granted to John de Harmondesnorth, Abbot of Chertsey, the right to hold a fair on St. Anne’s Day, July 26th, old style; but this is now held in the town on the 6th of August, and called “Black Cherry Fair,” from the abundance of that fruit sold there.—Brayley, History of Surrey, 1841, vol. ii. p. 191.
Aug. 15.] ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY.
Aug. 15.]