British Popular Customs, Present and Past / Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

Oct. 29.] ST. MODWEN’S DAY.

Oct. 29.]

ST. MODWEN’S DAY.

Staffordshire.

This day used to be observed at Burton-on-Trent. On it was held a sale of cheese, and a variety of sports and pastimes took place.—Pitt, Topographical History of Staffordshire, 1817, p. 45.

Oct. 30.]

Buckinghamshire.

Oct. 30.]