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SCGCJ.768.017
2 Feb 1768:12, 13 (113)
London. . . Monday 19th instant died, at his house in
Wapping, Daniel Day, a man well known for his mechanical
turn, and ingenuity in engine-work and pump-making; perhaps
as great an oddity as any living. he was the first promoter
and founder of the fair-lap fair in Hennault Forrest, in
Essex, which was holden the first Friday of July every year,
where he has for 40 years eat beens and bacon under an old
elm-tree, which he walked to and from while his strength
would permit, in one dress, a blue serge waistcoat, and
breeches embroidered with needle work; the last eight years,
as he grew feeble, he went in a coach, attended by a
fiddler. He endeavoured to make the fair statute, but could
not succeed, or would have been buried under the tree, and
ordered a monument to his memory. . .
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