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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Botley Assizes

The joke is to ask a Botley man, “When the assizes are coming on?” and an innuendo is supposed to be implied to the tradition that the men of Botley once hanged a man because he could not drink so deep as his neighbours.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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