Fairs, past and present : $b A chapter in the history of commerceWalford, Cornelius
History
Fairs, past and present : $b A chapter in the history of commerce
Walford, Cornelius
Fairs
Cambridge town, conflict with university, 56, 104.
Cambridge university, rights in Sturbridge fair, 70, 74.
Carter’s account of Sturbridge fair, 144.
Cash receipts of shows, &c., at Bartholomew fair, 239.
Cattle fair at Smithfield, 210, 224.
Champagne, fair of, 8.
Champagne and Brie, fairs of, 245.
Chapel at Sturbridge fair, 77.
Charity dormitory at Nijni fair, 305.
Charters of fairs, 14.
Cheese fair at Sturbridge, 150.
China, productions of, at Russian fairs, 292, 297, 300, 308.
Christening at Sturbridge fair, 145.
Church festivals and fairs, 2, 15.
Churchyard fairs abolished, 25.
Christie, Mr. Chancellor, 269.
Citizens of London attending fairs, 60, 66, 68, 100.
Citizens of London free of fairs, 20.
City of London, grant to, of Smithfield, 198.
Clark, Joseph, the “Posturer,” 215.
Clerk of the fair, 24.
Cloth at fairs, 278, 299.
Cloth trade in Bartholomew fair, 186, 210.
Cloth, right of search, 98.
Clothiers at Sturbridge fair, 136.
Coinage, 46.
College gowns, material bought at fairs, 87.
Cologne, merchants of, might attend English fairs, 23.
Commerce at fairs, 163.
Commonwealth and Bartholomew fair, 201.
Company of merchants from Holstein, 293.
Cotton goods at Russian fairs, 299.
Courtray (France), fair of, 8.
Courts for adjusting differences. See Piepowder, courts of.
Courts of pedlars, 27.
Coventry, fair at, 35.
Crecy, fair of, 283.
Crying the fair, 32.
Dagonizing of Bartholomew fair, 206.
Danish slaves sold, 10.
Day, Charles, his booth at Sturbridge fair, 147.
Defoe’s description of Sturbridge fair, 133.
Dice and hazard tables at Bartholomew fair, 225.
Dieppe, fair of, 265.
Disputation of scholars in Smithfield, 182.
Disputes, adjustment of, 9.
Disputes between City of London and Prior of St. Bartholomew, 169.
Dissolution of monasteries, 180.
Dower, right of, in fair booths, 119.
Draining the Fens, 122.
Drama, the, at Bartholomew fair, 195.
Drapers’ Company, 194.
Duddery in Sturbridge fair, 77, 135, 137.
Duration of fairs, 32.
Elegy on “Bartlemy” fair, 234.
Elizavetgrad (Russia), fair of, 285.
Ely, fair at, 35.
Embroidery, search for, 64.
England, early fairs in, 19.
England, laws relating to fairs, 12.
English merchants attending fairs, 37.
at French fairs, 272, 276.
Escheator, duties of, as to fairs, 25.
Europe, early fairs in, 19.
Evelyn visits Bartholomew fair, 201.
Exchanges at fairs, 248.
Executions at Smithfield, 171.
Fair committee, 302.
Fair, signification of the term, 2.
Fairs, origin of, 1.
by prescription, 15, 16, 17, 29.
Fair on Mount Calvary, 3.
Fairs, duration of, 33.
sources of revenue to religious houses, 2.
courts for adjusting differences at, 6, 26.
prohibited during plague. See Plague.
restricting dealings in, 41.
seal of, 248.
specific legislation for, 28.
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