MARKETS AND FAIRS 



103 



Dr. 



i 

 840 16 



s. d. 



To amount raised by Sub- 

 scription 



„ Market Tolls Resist- 

 ance Fund raised 

 by the late Wm. 

 Ellison . . . . 170 



., L. & N.W. Rly. Coy., 

 redemption of i\o 

 paid by them annually 200 



Interest 



19 18 



W. H. Wakefield, 



August 3, 1865. 



Cr. 



By Lords of the Manor, 

 Purchase of Tolls 



„ Expenses of Collect- 

 ing Abolition of 

 ToUs 



„ Advertising 



„ Wm. Fisher's account 

 for circulars, post- 

 age, collecting books, 

 etc. . . 



„ Half-year's rent un- 

 dertaken to be paid 

 out of this Fund, so 

 that no Toll should 

 be paid after Jan. 

 I, 1865 



„ Income Tax 



„ Harrison & Son, legal 

 expenses of convey- 

 ance 



„ Balance in hand . . 



s. d. 



1,100 o 



;^i,230 14 3 



;£i.230 14 3 



The proclamation abolishing the tolls was read by the Town 

 Clerk from the " Cauld-stean " in the market place on the morning 

 of the last day in the year 1864. 



Whereas, in or about the year 11 90, Gilbert Fitz Reinfred, then Baron of Kendal, 

 obtained from King Richard the First a charter for the holding of a fair or market 

 every week on the day before the Sunday in Kendal, and whereas various other 

 grants were made by subsequent Kings of England to Uke effect, or for the 

 holding of fairs on other days. And whereas the right to receive toll for such 

 fairs or markets has for many years been vested in the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Lonsdale and the Honourable Mary Howard, as Lords of the Barony 

 of Kendal ; and whereas certain parties interested in the prosperity of the 

 Town and neighbourhood of Kendal have covenanted with the aforesaid William, 

 Earl of Lonsdale, and the Honourable Mary Howard and their trustees to pay 

 the sum of eleven hundred pounds to the said Lords of the Barony of Kendal, 

 as, and for a full, entire and complete redemption of all tolls whatsoever payable 

 at markets or fairs held in Kendal, and further have agreed with the present 

 lessee of the said tolls, to indemnify him, her, or them from all loss for the 



