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Show Famous Curfew Tower. Chertsey, Surrey, can vie with Banbury Ban-bury in curfew memories, though it is only in recent years that the old custom cus-tom of tolling at sundown has heen revived re-vived there. The original curfew hell, which hung in Chertsey abbey, tolled for the funeral of Henry VI, murdered in the Tower of London and hurried to Chertsey for burial, "without priest, clerk, torch or taper, singing or saying." say-ing." The village was also the scene of the legend first put into story form and dramatized by Albert Smith which relates how Blanche Herlot, to save the life of her lover Neville, condemned to die at sundown, climbed the curfew tower and held the clapper of the great bell, determined that "curfew "cur-few shall not ring tonight." London Chronicle. |