This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...1st Tuesday, sheep; 1st Wednesday, cattle and horses. Rutherglen. 1st Friday after 4th May, great horse market. Beauly, or Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, monthly, except January, February, March, and 1 Dumbarton, spring and summer months, for West Highland cattle and sheep Lockerby, Dumfriesshire, August, lambs; September, cattle and sheep. Principal Irish Fair. Balllnasloe, In Galway, October 5 (four days), cattle and sheep. The foreign fairs are described under the heads of the countries wherein they are held. "In the feudal ages, the right of holding fairs was a valuable privilege, conceded by the sovereign to the lord of the manor; and from the arts which the old harons used to draw crowds to their markets, perhaps Warren and Rowland might learn new ways of alluring purchasers to their marts of blacking and bear's grease. Much skill was shown in choosing the site; the author of a Statistical View of the Fairs of France remarks, that, on examining his work, it will appear that they were placed, for the most part, on the frontiers of the kingdom, or on the marches of ancient provinces; or at the foot of high mountains, at the beginning or end of the snow season, which for months shuts up the inhabitants in their valleys; or in the neighbourhood of famous cathedrals or churches frequented by flocks of pilgrims; or in the middle of rich pastures. The devotion of the people was also turned to good account; many fairs were held on Sundays In churchyards j and almost in every parish a market was instituted on the day on which the parishioners were called together to do honour to their patron saint. Lest all these artifices should fail to secure a "" h Am Wdtm holH rtiif and fkfi-h&ri It own neculiar drollen November. L...