In its original form this work was entered in 1935 as a thesis for the degree of Master of Letters in the University of Durham. No attempt has been made to deal with the developments of any particular or individual fair; the subject has been viewed from the standpoint of those problems, economic, politiacl, social and religous, wich arose as a result, or were themselves the cause of a developed system fo trade in fair and market, and of which the fairs and markets of Yorkshire may be taken as representative of the normal conditions of the whole country.
K.L. McCutcheon Middlesbrough, 1940
Contents
| Chapter | Page | |
| Preface | v | |
| I. | Introductory | 1 |
| II. | The Ecclesiastical Nature of the Fair | 14 |
| III. | Legal Requirements in Fairs and Markets | 53 |
| IV. | Political Aspects of the Fair | 90 |
| V. | Finance and Justice in Fair and Market | 97 |
| VI | Trade in Fiars and Markets | 127 |
| Appendix | ||
| I. | Grants of Yorkshire Fairs and Markets in the Calendars of Charter Rolls | 161 |
| II. | List of Yorkshire Fairs in Owens Book of Fairs, 1770 | 173 |
| Index of Places and Fairs | 179 | |
| Index of Persons | 184 |
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