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See also:BARTHOLOMEW See also:FAIR , a fair held in See also:West Smithfield, See also:London, on St Bartholomew's See also:Day (24th of See also:August, O.S.) from 1133 to 1855. The See also:charter authorizing its holding was granted by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I. to his former See also:minstrel, Rahere, who had taken orders and had founded the priory of St Bartholomew See also:close by. For many centuries the fair lasted a fortnight, but in 1691 it was shortened to four days only. In 1641 it had become so large that it involved no less than four parishes: See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:Great and Little St Bartholomew's and St See also:Sepulchre's. It was customary for the See also:lord See also:mayor of London to open the fair See also:form-ally on St Bartholomew's See also:Eve, and on his way to stop at Newgate where he received from the See also:governor a See also:cup of See also:sack. In 1753, owing to the See also:change in the See also:calendar, the fair was proclaimed on the 3rd of See also:September. During its earlier See also:history the fair See also:grew to be a vast See also:national See also:market and the See also:chief See also:cloth See also:sale in the See also:kingdom. Down to 1854 it was usual for the representative of the See also:Merchant Taylors' Gild to proceed to the cloth fair which formed See also:part of Bartholomew fair, and test the See also:measures used for selling cloth there by the See also:company's See also:silver yard. The fair was finally closed in 1855.
For a full See also:account see Prof. H. See also:Morley, See also:Memoirs of Bartholomew
Fair (1859).
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