“In a fore one-pair room, on the west side of Sun-court,” a Frenchman exhibited, during the time of May Fair, the “astonishing strength of the 'Strong Woman,' * his wife.” “She first let down her hair, of a length descending to her knees, which she twisted round the projecting part of a blacksmith's anvil, and then lifted the ponderous weight from the floor. She also put her bare feet on a red-hot salamander, without receiving the least injury.” May Fair is now become the site of aristocratical dwellings, where a strong purse is required to procure a standing. At Horn Fair, a party of humorists of both sexes, counted in all the variety of Bull-Feather fashion, after perambulating round Cuckold Point, startled the little quiet village of Charlton on St. Luke's day, shouting their emulation, and blowing voluntaries on rams' horns, in honour of their patron saint. Ned Ward gives a curious picture of this odd ceremony,--and the press of _Stonecutter Street_ (the worthy successor of _Aldermary Churchyard_) has consigned it to immortality in two Broadsides ** inspired by the Helicon of the Fleet, * This was probably Mrs. Alchorne, “who had exhibited as the Strong Woman” and died in Drury Lane in 1817, at a very advanced age. Madame also performed at Bartholomew Fair in 1752. ** “A New Summons to all the Merry (Wagtail) Jades to attend at Horn Fair”--“A New Summons to Horn Fair” both without a date. “Around whose brink Bards rush in droves, like cart-horses to drink, Dip their dark beards among its streams so clear, And while they gulp it, wish it ale or beer,” and illustrated by the Cruikshank of his day. Mile-end Green, in ancient times, had its popular exhibitions;-- “Lord Pomp, let nothing that's magnificall, Or that may tend to London's graceful state, Be unperformed--as showes and solemne feastes, Watches in armour, triumphes, cresset-lightes, Bonefiers, belles, and peales of ordinance. And, Pleasure, see that plaies be published, Maie-games and maskes, with mirth and minstrelsie; Pageants and School-feastes, beares and puppit-plaies: Myselfe will muster upon Mile-end-greene, As though we saw, and feared not to be seene.” And the royal town of Windsor, * and the racecourse in Tothill-Fields ** were not without their merriments. * “The Three Lordes and Three Ladies of London,” 1590.