Note 73 — ACT IV.

Horn-fair was held at Charlton on St. Luke’s Day, 18th October.—The tradition was that King John cuckolded a miller who lived near Charlton, and compensated him by giving him all the land that he could see from his house, looking down the river; the condition being that the miller should walk round the estate annually on St. Luke’s Day with a pair of buck’s horns fastened on his head.