WEEKLY MARKETS. 
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Christmas, and the market is attended the whole year 
by hop dealers, who have always a stock of that article 
in the warehouses ready for sale ; this place being the 
great mart for hops, not only the produce of this 
county, but of the two adjoining ones of Gloucester 
and Hereford. 
Most of the hop dealers are also dealers in the seeds 
of clover, trefoil, and ray grass, of which large quan¬ 
tities are sold wholesale and retail in this market. 
In the fruit season, and in cyder and perry years, 
large quantities of those articles are also sold in this 
market both by the growers and dealers ; and Worces- 
ter, from its situation on the Severn, and convenient 
distance from the place of growth, and production of 
hops, fruit, cyder, and perry, as well as from the popu¬ 
lous countries where those articles are consumed, is the 
greatest mart for them in this part of the kingdom ; 
and its mart and commercial business are so consider¬ 
able, as Avell to support half a dozen or more capital 
inns, besides a number of very decent inferior ones; 
all of which are oftentimes fully occupied, and, at 
public times, so much crowded, that it is difficult for a 
traveller, who is a late comer in, to obtain a comfort¬ 
able room, and decent accommodations. A great deal 
of market, fair, and commercial business, is done in 
this place.—See Commerce. 
The regular weekly markets in the county are as fol¬ 
lows 
Bewdley..Saturday. 
Bromsgrove -.. Tuesday. 
Droitwich-Friday. 
Dudley---- Saturday. 
Evesham.Monday. 
Kidderminster.Thursday. 
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