Aug. 6.]

BLACK-CHERRY FAIR.

Surrey.

Henry VI., in the eighteenth year of his reign (1440), granted to John de Harmondesnorth, Abbot of Chertsey, the right to hold a fair on St. Anne’s Day, July 26th, old style; but this is now held in the town on the 6th of August, and called “Black Cherry Fair,” from the abundance of that fruit sold there.—Brayley, History of Surrey, 1841, vol. ii. p. 191.