On 28 December, Wrexham filled with country men and women servants for Gawby Day. They had once come to be hired, but by Hazlitt’s time it was just a holiday. He guessed the name came from gawby, a northern word for a bumpkin.
Gawby Day at Wrexham
28 December · Wrexham, Denbighshire
No longer kept
Formerly and originally they came up from the country to be hired ; but now it has become a mere holiday.
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 1, p. 268. Read the original
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