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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Kent

A fair was formerly held yearly on the 10th of October, in the precincts of the ville of Christ Church, and was usually called Jack and Joan Fair, from its being esteemed a statute fair for the hiring of servants of both sexes, for which purpose it continued till the second Saturday or market-day had passed.—Hasted’s History of Kent, 1799, vol. iv. p. 424.

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