114 IIURAL ECONOMY IX YORKSHIRE IN lG4l. 



Little Driffield two latter faires, called Lady day-faires, arc 

 the one upon Assump[tio]» Mar[i{e], aboute the 15th of August, 

 and the other super Nativ[itatem] Mar[i8e] aboute the 8th of 

 September ; where one may bee furnished Avith dishes, earthen 

 vessells, sythes, and hardware, harvest gloves, and all sortes of 

 pedler wares : horses doe sometimes goe indifferent well of here, 

 and fatte kyne, and calves, with other fatte goodes. There are 

 but just three weekes and three dayes betwixt these tAvo 

 fayres. 



Malton horse faire beginnes nowe of late three dayes before 

 St. Mathewe day ; the cheife shewes are the day before St. 

 Mathewes eve, and on St. Mathewes eve ; the shewes beginne 

 aboute nine of the clocke in the mominges, and aboute three of 

 the clocke in the aftemoone ; they ride the horses upon the 

 landes on the noii-h-west side of the towne ; on St. Mathewe 

 day, which is the 21st of September, most of the horses goe 

 away after three of the clocke ; the beast fayre is not till Mi- 

 chaell Arch [angel] day, the 29th of September. 



On St. Mathewe day, the 21st of September, there is allsoe a 

 fayre att Frodingham in Holderne.sse. On St. LawTence, the 

 10th of August, there is a fayi'e at Killam. On the 10th of 

 October there is a faire at Bridlington. On St. Luke day there 

 is a faire att Hunmanby. On St. John day, the 25th of Octo- 

 ber, beinge the same day senight after St. Luke, there is a fayre 

 att Beverley, att which fatte beasts used to goe well of 



On All Saints day, the first of November, there is a faire att 

 Killam, to which greate store of suckinge foales and other 

 younge foales are brought to bee solde ; here allsoe doe wee sell 

 all our olde hoi-ses, after that they are past doinge us service : 

 all sortes of sheepe goe well of here, and especially olde ewes 

 and hogges ; soe that it is a rule for the country till the next 

 springe. 



For Lettinge of Corne to Mowe by the Acre. 



Those that take come to mowe by the acre are allsoe tyed to 



lye it [in] band, but not to binde and stooke it, unlesse it bee 



so conditioned : they have usually, for mowinge of wheate and 



lyinge it in bande, 2*t. Gd. an acre, I have knowne one have 



» The word " ahout" docs not in Yorkshire denote any uncertainty. It is only 

 that tlie native caution is the ruling passion. Ask a man his name, and he will rejily 

 " I hclicvc it will be John." Our author is strictly coiTect as to his dates, as wit- 

 ness Bamaby Googe ; 



".The Blessed Virgin Marie's feast hath here his place and time 

 " Wherein, departing from the earth, she did the heavens climb; 

 " Great bundles then of hearhes to church, the people fast do bcnrc, 

 " The which against nil hurtfull things the priest doth hallow there." 



