Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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_Bingley in Yorkshire._--In the town of Bingley, {312} in Yorkshire, the custom of ringing the curfew existed in the year 1824. It may have been discontinued since that year, but I do not know that it has. It is also the custom at Blackburn, in Lancashire; and it was, if it is not now, at Bakewell in Derbyshire. H.J. _Bromyard, Herefordshire._--The curfew is still rung at Bromyard, Herefordshire, at nine P.M., from the 5th of November, until Christmas Day; and the bell is afterwards tolled the number of the day of the month. Why it is merely confined to within the above days, I could never ascertain. G.F.C. _Waltham-on-the-Wolds._--The curfew is still rung at Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, at five A.M., eight P.M. in summer, and at six A.M., seven P.M. in winter; the bell also tolling the day of the month. R.J.S. _Oxfordshire._--I see that NABOC's inquiry about the curfew is answered at p. 175. by a reference to the _Journal of the British Archæological |
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