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|f_annotation='''CROYDON FAIR [1].''' English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Croydon Fair" is a jig and country dance that was first printed in Richard Baldwin's periodical '''London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer''' of June, 1756 (p. 293). According to Thomas Frost, | |f_annotation='''CROYDON FAIR [1].''' English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Croydon Fair" is a jig and country dance that was first printed in Richard Baldwin's periodical '''London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer''' of June, 1756 (p. 293). According to Thomas Frost<ref>Thomas Frost, '''The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs''', London, 1875; pp. 6-7. </ref>: | ||
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''Croydon Fair dated from 1276, when the interest of Archbishop Kilwardby obtained for the town the right of holding a fair'' | |||
''during nine days, beginning on the vigil of St. Botolph, that is, on the 16th of May. In 1314, Archbishop Reynolds obtained'' | |||
''for the town a similar grant for a fair on the vigil and morrow of St. Matthew’s day; and in 1343, Archbishop Stratford'' | |||
''obtained a grant of a fair on the feast of St. John the Baptist. The earliest of these fairs was the first to sink into'' | |||
''insignificance; but the others survived to a very recent period in the sheep and cattle fair, held in latter times on the'' | |||
''2nd of October and the two following days, and the cherry fair, held on the 5th[Pg 7] of July and the two following days.'' | |||
''Whatever may have been the relative importance of these fairs in former times, the former, though held at the least genial'' | |||
''season, was, for at least a century before it was discontinued, the most considerable fair in the neighbourhood of the metropolis;'' | |||
''while the July fair lost the advantage of being held in the summer, through the contracted limits within which its component parts'' | |||
''were pitched. These were the streets between High Street and Surrey Street, and included the latter, formerly called Butcher Row;'' | |||
''and the only space large enough for anything of dimensions exceeding those of a stall for the sale of toys or gingerbread, was that'' | |||
''at the back of the Corn Market, on which the cattle-market was formerly held.'' | |||
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CROYDON FAIR [1]. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Croydon Fair" is a jig and country dance that was first printed in Richard Baldwin's periodical London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer of June, 1756 (p. 293). According to Thomas Frost[1]:
Croydon Fair dated from 1276, when the interest of Archbishop Kilwardby obtained for the town the right of holding a fair during nine days, beginning on the vigil of St. Botolph, that is, on the 16th of May. In 1314, Archbishop Reynolds obtained for the town a similar grant for a fair on the vigil and morrow of St. Matthew’s day; and in 1343, Archbishop Stratford obtained a grant of a fair on the feast of St. John the Baptist. The earliest of these fairs was the first to sink into insignificance; but the others survived to a very recent period in the sheep and cattle fair, held in latter times on the 2nd of October and the two following days, and the cherry fair, held on the 5th[Pg 7] of July and the two following days. Whatever may have been the relative importance of these fairs in former times, the former, though held at the least genial season, was, for at least a century before it was discontinued, the most considerable fair in the neighbourhood of the metropolis; while the July fair lost the advantage of being held in the summer, through the contracted limits within which its component parts were pitched. These were the streets between High Street and Surrey Street, and included the latter, formerly called Butcher Row; and the only space large enough for anything of dimensions exceeding those of a stall for the sale of toys or gingerbread, was that at the back of the Corn Market, on which the cattle-market was formerly held.
- ↑ Thomas Frost, The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs, London, 1875; pp. 6-7.