MARKETS AND FAIRS 127 



KIRKBY LONSDALE. 



IT would appear that the market day in Kirkby Lonsdale in 1720 

 was on Tuesday in each week, but Nicolson and Bum give it in 1777 

 as being held on Thursday, with a fair on September 7th, 8th and 9th ; 

 this was under a charter granted in the nth of Henry 3rd, 1227 ; this 

 charter being declared to be illegal the fairs and markets lapsed to 

 the King. 



As the Market Place was found to be too small for the trade in 

 1820, a subscription was made which resulted in £370 los. 6d. being 

 subscribed, of which Lord Lonsdale contributed ;fi25, and a new Market 

 Place was constructed and vested in Lord Lonsdale as lord of the manor 

 and trustee for the inhabitants " upon trust that the same should 

 hereafter be used as a place for the holding of weekly markets and 

 annual fairs of which the said Earl was proprietor that the land should 

 forever hereafter be appropriated for public use and benefit of the 

 inhabitants of the Town and neighbourhood," Lord Lonsdale to retain 

 all his rights to all stallage fees and tolls for all markets and fairs held 

 there. 



On the 7th of November, 1822, the following regulations were made 

 at the Court Leet : — " At the Market Cross called the Little Market 

 might be sold, Fish, Coal, Turf and Fuel. In the New Market Place 

 on the South Row of Stalls Butchers shall stand with their Stalls 

 facing South. In the remaining Stalls on the said Row and on the 

 middle Row should be shown Hardware, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Leather, 

 Hats, Brushes, Hemp, and Flax Manufactures, Haberdashery, Hosiery, 

 Books, and Wooden wares. The 3rd Row of stalls should be set apart 

 for Clothiers and people exposing woollen goods for sale. Against the 

 North Wall should be shown Pots, Glass, Earthenware, Butter, Eggs, 

 Fowls, Fruit and other produce exposed in baskets. On Market Days 

 potatoes should be placed at the bottom of the New Market Place but 

 on all Fairs in the Horse Market : all Potatoes, Carrots, Turnips, Apples, 

 Pears and other garden produce exposed should be sold by weight at 

 the rate of 14 lbs to the stone and no one should set up any stall without 

 leave of the Inspector of the Fairs in any place except as before named 

 and without having paid the proper rent for the same. All Cattle were 

 to be shown in Fair Bank and Mitchellgate ; Sheep and Drove Pigs 

 in Queen Street and Bulls in the South West corner of Queen Street ; 



