Average price. No. of horses sold. £ s. d. 1629 39 2 9 8 1630 97 2 9 9 1631 60 2 19 8½ 1632 26 2 16 2 1633 33 3 5 0 1634 29 2 18 0 1635 21 2 1 10 1636 17 2 15 7 1637 22 2 19 1 1638 31 2 18 0 1639 36 2 14 0 1641 9 2 14 5 1642 3 — 1643 2 1 15 6 1647 46 4 3 4 1648 5 2 14 0 1649 37 3 15 10 1650 17 4 5 8 1651 12 3 16 0 The absence of sales during the years 1644–46, and the small number disposed of in 1641–3, may be accounted for by the following entry in the Parish Register:— 1647. The Regester of the Towne and Burrough of Barnestaple, by the cause of the troubles and the contagion [plague] was not kept from the year anno 1642 till the year anno 1647. The following prices were realized for cattle sold at the various fairs mentioned above:— 8 heifers, black like, price £30 10s. 0d. 2 black oxen, topp cutt on farther eare. Price £13. 2 heifers and 1 steward. Price £6 13s. 4d. 1 red ox. Price £4 3s. 4d. 2 oxen. Price £10. The opening of the fair takes place with the ceremonies which have attended it for many generations. On the morning of the first day a large stuffed glove, fixed at the end of a pole, is displayed from a window of the Guildhall, having before the year 1852 been exhibited from the west corner of the Quay Hall, which was demolished in that year to widen the street and quay, and which had been, until the dissolution of religious houses by Henry VIII., an ecclesiastical building, known as St. Nicholas’ Chapel. In the Receiver’s accounts for 1615 occurs the entry:— Paid for a glove put out at the fair, 4d.; and in those for 1622:— Paid for a paire of gloves at the faire 4d. Another entry in the same account being:— Paid for candles to hange by a bull that was not beaten,