Bartholomew Fair, an annual market held at Smithfield, London, and instituted in 1133 by Henry I., to be kept on the saint's day, but abolished in 1853, when it ceased to be a market and became an occasion for mere dissipation and riot.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bartholomew, St. * Bartholomew Hospital