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Bartholomew Fair

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An annual market held at Smithfield, London, and instituted in 1133 by Henry I., to be kept on the saint's day, but abolished in 1853, when it ceased to be a market and became an occasion for mere dissipation and riot.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bartholomew Fair'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bartholomew-fair.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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