MARKETS AND FAIRS 105 



Corn, for every pack or parcel id. per parcel ; sell or not sell. 



Cart Load of goods, of any description, above 16 stone weight, 2d. 



Salt Fish id. per load or bushel. 



Linseys id. per piece. 



Fruit isld. pays Id., if six pecks id., and for every load id. 



Hides id. each, sell or not sell ; buyers of same pay Id. each. 



Calves and Sheep Skins ^d. each ; buyers of same 4d. per score. 



Cotton Wool and Yarn id. for three stone. 



Ley Stones and Sand id. per day. 



Linen Cloth and Harden Id. per day if three stone weight. 



Country Butchers id. each calf if quick ; if dead Id. 



do. for sheep 8d. per score, and every beast 2d. 



do. double Toll on Christmas Eve. 



Kirkland : — Beasts, Sheep, and Swine, killed here and sold in Kendal, 

 Beast id.. Sheep and Swine 2d. per score. 



The restricted covered market under the east end of St. George's 

 Chapel remained in use till that building was pulled down in 1855 ; 

 below the market were wine cellars and the lock-up or " black-hole." 



" There's a spirit above, and a spirit below, 

 A spirit of love, and a spirit of woe ! 

 The Spirit above is the Spirit Divine, 

 And the spirit below is the spirit of wine." 



The new market house was built on the site covered by the chapel 

 at a cost of £732 15s., which sum was raised by public subscription. 

 It was formally opened by the Mayor, on March 29th, 1856. 



The corn market at this date having greatly declined, the new 

 building was used as the market for butter, eggs, poultry, and veget- 

 ables, a small area only being reserved in the east end for corn ; in 

 1869 a small covered semi-circular structure was added to the east 

 end of the market house, it was occupied by the corn sellers. 



A public weighing machine with sworn weigher was provided 

 in 1845, and from 1864 the Corporation let it annually from Whit- 

 suntide, a condition of the letting being that the sworn weigher was not 

 to act as a coal agent. 



The market continued to be held in this building till June, 1889, 

 when the new market hall wets opened as a memorial to Queen Victoria. 

 The cost of the site was £1360, and the total estimated cost £3500 

 without fittings ; of this sum £1500 Wcis subscribed. The old building 



