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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Surrey

From time immemorial a fair, or wake, has been held in the churchyard of Crowhurst on Palm Sunday. Formerly, excesses were frequently committed on the occasion through the sale of liquors; but of late years the fair has been conducted with great decorum.—Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey, 1841, iv. p. 132.

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