There was a St. Munday's or Mondays well in Bishops Stortford, incidently
there was another Sunday well in Derbyshire.
>From: James Rattue <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: for students of holy wells and waterlore
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>Subject: St Sunday's Wells
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 13:24:04 +0100
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>As a parallel and not *quite* off-topic usage of the 'saint' prefix,
>here in High Wycombe it used to be the custom for the chairmakers to
>take Monday off to go out drinking and then work longer hours for the
>rest of the week to make the time up - and this was known as Saint
>Monday. I *think* there were similar customs in other traditional craft-
>based industries too.
>
>James Rattue
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