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Friday 1 October

Born on this day: Joe Heaney (1919), John Lorne Campbell (1906) and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1857)

Folklore from the old calendars

The Lawless Court No longer kept EssexOn the Wednesday after Michaelmas, tenants of the manors around Rochford had to attend a court held on King's Hill at first cock-crow, in the dark.
Brother Salter No longer kept LondonUnder the will of Sir John Salter, who died in 1605, the beadles and servants of the Salters' Company had to go to St Magnus church by London Bridge in the first week of October.
Proclaiming Peterborough Bridge Fair Still kept Huntingdonshire, NorthamptonshirePeterborough proclaimed its Bridge Fair at noon, with the town council, the mayor's sergeant and javelin men marching to the bridge over the county boundary.

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