Stocklinch in Somerset, whose church was dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, held its revel on her day, 22 July. Brand cites Collinson’s History of Somersetshire as one of many cases of a wake still kept on the day of the church’s saint.
The Magdalen revel at Stocklinch
22 July · Stocklinch, Somerset
No longer kept
A Revel is held here on St. Mary Magdalen's day.
From Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. 2, p. 3. Read the original
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