{"id":18790,"date":"2017-06-20T00:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18790"},"modified":"2017-06-20T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:48:30","slug":"20th-june-st-edmunds-fair-a-fair-of-custard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18790","title":{"rendered":"20th June &#8211; St Edmund&#8217;s Fair &#8211; A Fair of Custard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17062002.jpg\" alt=\"Great Get Together\" \/><br \/>\nRecently I mentioned a walk that visited some places associated with St Edmund of Abingdon. We learned that St. Edmund&#8217;s Chapel and St. Edmund&#8217;s Fair perpetuated his memory for some time in Abingdon. St Edmund&#8217;s Chapel was near St Edmund&#8217;s Lane, and St Edmund&#8217;s Fair was on the day when St. Edmund was &#8216;translated&#8217; to become a saint (9th June). As the calendar was changed to come into line with the rest of Europe in 1750 and 11 days added, then we assumed that St Edmund&#8217;s Fair would now be on the 20th June  one day before the summer solstice.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17062003.jpg\" alt=\"Great Get Together\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepysdiary.com\/diary\/1668\/06\/09\/\">Tuesday 9 June 1668<\/a> was the day that Samuel Pepys visited Abingdon, on the way from Oxford, and wrote in his diary <i>&#8220;At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper: 5s.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We also learned that the school fair at St Edmund School takes place on the Saturday nearest 20th June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I mentioned a walk that visited some places associated with St Edmund of Abingdon. We learned that St. Edmund&#8217;s Chapel and St. Edmund&#8217;s Fair perpetuated his memory for some time in Abingdon. St Edmund&#8217;s Chapel was near St Edmund&#8217;s Lane, and St Edmund&#8217;s Fair was on the day when St. Edmund was &#8216;translated&#8217; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}