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
Feast days, fairs on, 34.
Fellowship of Mercers, 37.
Fielding kept a booth at Bartholomew fair, 225.
Fire, alarm of, at Sturbridge fair, 149.
at Bartholomew fair, 225, 234.
“Firm peace,” a privilege of fairs, 168.
Fish at fairs to be good, 83.
forestalling of, 73, 76, 111.
Flanders, fairs of, 8.
Flemish weavers at Sturbridge fair, 161.
Flood at Sturbridge fair, 1562, 100.
Foreign merchants in England, 21-24, 61.
Foreigners at Bartholomew fair, 168.
Forestalling, 50, 72, 73, 85.
Forsyth (W.), his work quoted, 307.
Four early fairs in England, 19.
France, early fairs in, 8.
fairs in, 244, 261, 274.
Franchises of fairs, 18, 246, 269.
Fraternity of St. Thomas Becket, 38.
Free borough, right of fairs in, 18.
Freemen of London attending fairs, 34, 36.
Gaming prohibited at Sturbridge fair, 156.
Garlick-row, Sturbridge fair, 157.
Genoese commerce, 8, 9, 10, 296.
merchants at Sturbridge fair, 161.
Germany, early fairs, in, 7.
Goal delivery in Sturbridge fair, 118.
Golden crowns of the sun, 269.
Greece, origin of fairs in, 3.
Greek church, festivals of the, 27.
Guibray (France), fair of, 266.
Gunning, Henry, “Reminiscences of Cambridge,” 148.
Hackney coaches in Sturbridge fair, 117, 126, 140, 142.
“Hand and shears,” tailors at the, 204, 211.
Hangman hanged in Smithfield, 184.
Hanse Towns trading at Sturbridge fair, 161.
Hanseatic League, 23.
Helston (Cornwall), fair at, 13.
Heretics burned in Smithfield, 179.
Hertford, claimed exemption from tolls, 70.
Historical shirt, 203.
Hone’s survey of Bartholomew fair, 236.
Hone, account of Sturbridge fair, 149.
Hops at Sturbridge fair, 137, 139, 143.
right of weighing at Sturbridge, 125.
Horners’ Company, right of search, 66.
Horse-bread at fairs, 84.
Horse fairs, 43.
fair, Sturbridge, 152, 157.
and cattle fairs of France, 282.
dealers in French fairs, 247, 250.
fairs of Russia, 285, 307.
Hospital for lepers, fair for, 55, 59.
Hostilities suspended during fairs, 4.
Household stores bought at fairs, 63.
Idle games prohibited, 114.
Ill fame, arrest of persons of, 78, 155, 156.
Indulgences sold at fairs, 6.
Initiation at Sturbridge fair, 145.
Inquiries into grants of fairs, 16.
Inquisitions as to fairs, 17, 54.
Inspectors of fairs (France), 248, 273.
International reciprocity, 21.
Intoxicating liquors at fairs, 53.
Ironmonger’s row, Sturbridge fair, 153.
Ironware at fairs, 298.
Ireland, fairs in, 51, 52.
Italy, fairs in, 6.
Jew traders, 7.
Jews at the fair of Paris, 275.
Jitomir (Russia), fair of, 286.
Jonson, Ben, “Bartholomew fair,” 195.
Karkoff (Russia), fair of, 286.
Kasan (Russia), fair of, 286.
Keeper of the fair, 24.
Kensington, Lord, and Bartholomew fair, 205, 240.
Kiakhta (Russia), fair of, 301, 308.
“King’s beam,” 113.
King’s jester, or court fool, 165.
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