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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

Aug. 16.] ST. ROCHE’S DAY.

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Aug. 16.]

ST. ROCHE’S DAY.

This day was anciently kept like a wake, or general harvest-home, with dances in the churchyard in the evening.—Fosbrooke, Dict. Antiq.

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