Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson Play Annotated

The Bartholomew Fair was into one among London's pre-eminent summer season constitution festivals. A constitution for the truthful became granted to Rahere by Henry I to fund the Priory of St Bartholomew; and from 1133 to 1855 it passed off each 12 months on 24 August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield, outside Aldersgate of the City of London. The honest persevered, after the Dissolution inside the liberty of the parish of St Bartholomew-the-Great.