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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… fair. In 1433 Henry VI granted the right of holding two sheep fairs in May and September respectively. 26 In 1496 a … century, however, the chief fair days were the cattle and sheep fair of 5 May, and the big sheep fair of 12 September. 35 Some of this confusion may …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… oxen for the king, 27 and the purveyors of oxen, cows, and sheep also made their purchases at Wilton and elsewhere for …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to the 29th after the alteration in the calendar. 19 The sheep fair was recorded c. 1710 and the Easter Tuesday fair … 21 In the 19th century the fairs were said to be for sheep, cattle, cheese, butter, and pedlary. 22 By the 1870s … were recorded in 1717. 25 In 1792 the fair, for cattle, sheep, horses, and cheese, was moved for convenience from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… March, on May 6th, and July 28th, for horses, cattle, and sheep; and two fairs take place at Michaelmas for the hiring …
Survey of London
… shall have free pasturage for 4 beasts and 26 two-year-old sheep." In the Tudor period the open ground became known as …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… land anciently belonging to this trust and known as the 'Sheep-fair Field' was sold and the proceeds invested with the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… being taken by the serjeants-at-mace. The first was a sheep fair and the toll was 1 s. 6 d. on every pen of fifty sheep exposed. At the present day a cattle and seed fair is held on the last Saturday in February, a cattle, horse, sheep, pigs and pleasure fair on 23 and 24 October. The …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the pasture of the ditches except to pasture horses and sheep only. Two years later the pasture of the city ditch …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in the joints of the walls is crumbling away. Secular Sheep Street, N. side (3). Winslow Hall, 140 yards S.E. of … entirely of modern brick; the roofs are tiled or thatched. Sheep Street, S. side (9). House, now two tenements, nearly …