CURFEW STILL RINGS.
CUSTOM AT CHERTSEY. SURREY VILLAGE’S TRADITIONS. The Surrey village of Chertsey is reechoing once more to the tolling of the curfew bell, which, in accordance with ancient custom, is still sounded there every evening from September 29 to March 25. Chertsey has interesting curfew associations to maintain (says the London Daily Chronicle). The original curfew bell in Chertsey Abbey tolled for the funeral of Henry VI., murdered in the Tower of London and hurried to Chertsey to be buried. It figured also in the legend—once so popular with elocutionists—which tells how Blanche Herriot, to save her lover, who had been condemned to die at curfew, climbed the tower and held the clapper of the bell, determined that “curfew shall not ring to-night.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5518, 30 December 1929, Page 4
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125CURFEW STILL RINGS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5518, 30 December 1929, Page 4
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