If there be any that will sue for any wares, Debts, Injuries or Trespasses, or think themselves wronged in any of the premises, let them make complaint to the Chancellor’s Commissary of this University who will hold and keep Court at the Great Tiled Booth on — next, the — instant at — o’clock to the intent that Justice may be administered according to the Charters and Privileges of this University. God save the Queen. [Copied from the book of Formulæ in the University Registry. ALFRED ROGERS, April 28, 1882.] 1882. The fair still lingers on. Its commercial greatness has long since passed away—ebbed out of existence by slow degrees, resulting from many social and other changes, rather than from any one marked cause. But, as may be expected after six and a half centuries (at least) of notable existence, it dies hard. Three of its features still remain. The horse fair, always famous, was this year greater than for some time past. The onion fair is still associated with Garlick row, while hurdles, gates, and implements of wood are still prominent. Thus traditions cling. In “Æsop Dress’d”—a rare collection of fables by J. Mandeville (4to. 1704, p. 9; should be 33), there appeared the following: “An ass of stupid memory Confes’d, that going to _Stourbridge Fair_, His back most brok with wooden ware.” The old associations are, however, rapidly crumbling away. The fair is still proclaimed by the mayor at the old time of commencing; but the fair is not now held until a fortnight later and only lasts three days. There are points in the Proclamation worthy of note. _Proclamation of Sturbridge Fair by the Mayor of Cambridge._—Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Mr. Mayor doth strictly charge and command all manner of persons to keep silence whilst the Fair of Sturbridge is publicly proclaimed. God save the Queen. Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Our most Gracious Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the faith by Mr. Mayor of the Borough of Cambridge Her Majesty’s Lieutenant of the said Borough one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Borough and County of Cambridge and chief Governor of this Fair Doth strictly charge and command that all Merchants and other persons that be repaired or shall or will repair to this Fair of Sturbridge beginning on the feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle (old style) and continuing until the fourteenth day next after the feast of the exaltation of the Holy Cross (old style) do keep Her Majesty’s Peace. That all idle and evil disposed persons within this Fair depart the same forthwith. That no Merchant put to sale or offer to sell any wares or merchandize but in the usual and accustomed places for their several wares and merchandizes appointed.