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dent, or sulTer a sequestration of his pro- 

 perty. 



8. The countryman never brings his 

 own goods to market, unless he happens 

 to be going that way, in which case he 

 usually tiikes them with him, but otherwise 

 it is expected the merchant should fetch 

 them. 



9. When the towns of this part of the 

 country were first built, each had ccrtam 

 parishes appropriated to it, and these were 

 called the trading district of each town, m 

 which no person who did not belong to the 

 town had a right to trade. These exclu- 

 siv^e privileges were subsequently annulled 

 by royal authority, and free markets were 

 established, where strangers as well as the 

 neighbouring inhabitants were equally per- 

 mitted to trade. This open trade has not 

 however taken place at Calix, partly be- 

 cause the peasants are situated at so great 

 a distance from one another, and partly 

 because the merchants in the town con- 

 ceive that such a plan would ruin them. 



