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
Sturbridge fair, 21.
history of, 54.
impeached, 75.
new charter, 92, 106.
De Foe’s description of, 133.
plan of, 147.
merchandise at, 149.
money taken at, 152.
last time called by university, 154.
proclamation by university, 154.
proclamation by town, 158.
Sunday fairs, 34.
Sunday trading prohibited, 156, 192.
Supplies purchased at fairs, 103.
Suspected people to be arrested, 99.
Tallow, sale of, 72.
Theatrical performances, 49.
Thermopylæ, fairs of, 4.
Tolls of fairs, 15, 21 (note), 65, 69, 94.
Tolls, Bartholomew fair, 169, 176, 180, 205, 209, 230, 240, 241.
Torhout, fair of, 8.
Toulon, fair of, 271.
Trespass at Sturbridge fair, 143.
Tribunals of commerce, 28.
Troy weight, 272.
Troyes, fairs of, 7, 271.
Tunbridge ware at Sturbridge fair, 154.
Tuscan merchants, 272.
Tyre, fairs of, 4.
Tyson, Rev. Michael, 146.
Universities, rights of, reserved, 43.
Venetian merchants at Sturbridge fair, 161.
Victuals, measures for sale of, to be sealed, 156.
Voronej, fair of, 290.
Walden claimed freedom from tolls, 70.
Wales, fairs in, 18, 39.
Wallace executed in Smithfield, 171.
Wallace’s “Russia” quoted, 306.
Warden of the fair, 249.
Wardens of the privileges, 247.
Weights for fairs, 25.
Weighing goods at Sturbridge fair, 145.
Weights in Bartholomew fair, 191.
Westminster, statute of, 23.
Wine at fairs, price fixed, 83, 156.
Wines at Bordeaux fair, 264.
Winter fair, Russia, 307.
Wood at fairs to be good, 86.
Wooden ware, Sturbridge, 157.
Wool at Sturbridge fair, 139, 162.
Woollen goods at fairs, 278.
Women, “unhonest,” excluded from Sturbridge fair, 155, 156.
Wrestling matches in Bartholomew fair, 198.
Yekaterinburg (Russia), fair of, 310.
Zytomiers (Russia), fair of, 286.
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