ENGLISH MARKETS AND FAIRS. 



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to whom these rights belong. As regards the thirty- 

 three instances where no rights are claimed and no markets 

 are held it may be explained that they appear in this 

 table because, in a return presented to Parliament in 

 1886, they were specified as places where " a resemblance 

 of a market was at that time to be found." 



Of the 769 markets, or vestiges of markets, enumerated, 

 it appears that 261 were in boroughs, 266 in other urban 

 districts, and 242 in rural districts. 



On the amount of the income which the various market 

 owners obtain by virtue of the rights granted to them, 



