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MARKETS and FAIRS. 



Befules the weekly markets which are held in all 

 the principal towns, for the fale of butcher- meat, 

 and other articles of provilions, there are feveral 

 ftated annual fairs for the iixle of cattle, horfes and 

 fheep. 



The price of provifions are as follow 



Beef and mutton, 4id. per lb 

 Lamb, 5 d. to 6 d. per do. 

 Veal, 4 d. do. do. 

 Pork, 4t d. do. do. 



Butter, 8 d. to 10 d. do. 

 Cheefe, 4 d. to 5 d. do. 

 Bread, i-Jd. do. 



A goofe, 3 s. 



A turkey, 3 s. 6 d. 



A duck, I s. 



A hen, i s. 3 d. 



A chicken, 6 d. 



Eggs, 6 d. per Icore. 



The quantity of wheat and flour annually ex- 

 ported from this county is very great ; but it 

 was not poffible, by any means, to afcertain the 

 amount, as the greatert proportion is tranfported by 

 land-carriage. The wheat is fold by the farmers 

 to the millers in their neighbourhood, who convert 

 it into flour, and difpofe of it in the neighbouring 

 counties of Leicefl;er, Nottingham, and Warwick, 

 and great quantities are annually fent down the 

 Nen to Wilhech. A great proportion of the bar- 

 ley crop is made into malt, and confumed in the 

 county. The oats, and a great part of the beans, 

 are confumed by the horfes ; a fraall quantity of 

 beans are, however, annually exported to Wilbech 

 and other places. 



Having been favoured with an account of the 

 prices at which the bufliel of wheat, barley, oats, 

 and beans was fold on a particular farm in this di- 



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