376 MAR 
MARKET- DAY', f. The day on which things are 
publicly bought and fold.—He ordered all the Lucquefe 
to be feized that were found on a. market-day in one of his 
frontier-towns. Addifcn on Italy. 
Fool that I was, I thought imperial Rome 
Like Mantua, where on market-days we come. 
And thither drive our lambs. Dry den's Virgil. 
MARKET-DEE'PING. See Deeping, vol. v. 
MARKET-DRAY'TON. See Drayton, vol. vi. p.69. 
MAR'KET-FOLKS,/. People that come to the mar¬ 
ket.—Poor market-folks that come to fell their corn. Shake- 
fpeare. 
MARKET-GELD',/. The toll of a market. Phillips. 
MARKET-HAR'BOROUGH, a market-town in the 
county of Leicefter, fituated near the bank of the river 
Welland. It is a refpeftable well-built town, having been 
lately very materially improved, and feveral new houfes 
having been erected. Many of the buildings are, how¬ 
ever, included in the parifhes of Great and Little Bow¬ 
den ; to the former of which this town is attached. In 
the Telia de Nevill, this place is called both Herberburr 
Buggedon, and Haverberg, and by the latter name it is de- 
fignated in molt other ancient whitings wherein it is men¬ 
tioned : haver being, as Johnfon informs us, a common 
word, in the northern counties, for oats. 
Market-Hsrborough has a ftrong claim to Roman an¬ 
tiquity. On the ealt fide of the town are traces of an an¬ 
cient encampment, which, from its form, may be confi- 
dered of Roman origin. At a fhort diftance, both ealt 
and well, Roman urns, and other pottery, have been dif- 
covered ; and even in the ftreet an ancient drain was 
lately found, a few feet below the furface, which appeared 
to be of Roman mafonry. The encampment was of a 
fquare form, and included about fix acres of land ; the 
banks and fofs are nearly levelled, the moll confpicuous 
remains being in an old inclofure, called the King’s-head 
Clofe. Near this fpot, in the year 1779, were dilcovered 
two fepulchral urns, one of a large fize, the other fmaller. 
It is rather a curious circumllance, that Harborough has 
no land or fields belonging to it; whence originated the 
local proverb, that “ A goofe will eat all the grafs that 
grows in Harborough field.” In ecclefiaftical affairs, this 
tow n is dependent on the parifli of Great Bowden ; its 
chief religious ftrufture being only a chapel of eafe. This 
building, however, is large,liandfome, and nearly uniform 
in its (tyle of architefture. It may be fairly ranked with 
the fineit religious edifices in the couftty ; and confilts of 
a nave, two aides, a chancel, with two tiers of windows, 
two porches, and a tower with a fpire. This chapel is 
mentioned in an ecclefialtical record of 1344., where it is 
jioticed as a parcel of thp reftory of Bowden Magna. 
Mr. Nichols fuppofes it to have been ertfted by Geffrey le 
Scope, “ whole arms were repeated on the fleeple.” In 
this town are three meeting-houfes; for Prefbyterians, 
Quakers, and Metbodifts. In the principal ftreets is a 
large town-hall; and near the chapel is a charity-fchool 
founded by Mr. Smith. In the time of queen Eliza¬ 
beth, a large manufactory of flioes for foreign trade 
was eftablifhed here; and at prefent the making of tam¬ 
mies, fnalloons, plain and figured ladings, &c. affords em¬ 
ployment to many poor families in the toWn and its vici¬ 
nity. The bufinefs in thefe articles is very confiderable 5 
and Mr. Nichols obferves, that in fome years “it is com¬ 
puted that 30,000k has been returned in the article of tam¬ 
mies only. It is eightv-three miles diftant from London ; 
a great thoroughfare in the road to Derby ; and was fa¬ 
mous, in Camden’s time, for its beaft-fair, where the bell 
hordes and colts are ftill fold. The market is on Tuefday, 
for the ufe of which the earl of Harbqrough built a neat 
market-houfe at his own expenfe; fairs, Feb. 17, July 31, 
October 19 : the latter is the beaft-fair. Here is a good 
f ree-fchook Nichols's Hijl. of Leicejler/hire . 
MARKET HILL', a poll-town of Ireland, in the 
county of Armagh, fifty-eight miles north-by-yveft from 
K E T. 
Dublin. It is a thriving town, the neighbourhood of 
which may be confidered as claflical ground. Gosford 
Cattle, the refidence of fir A. Acheron, the friend of Swift, 
(whole defcendant is now lord Gosford,) adjoins the town ; 
and near this is Draper’s Hill, a name given to a farm 
taken by the dean, .on which he intended to build, and 
which was fo called, that, 
When none the Draper’s praife fhall ling. 
His figns aloft no longer fw ing ; 
His famous Letters made walte paper, 
This hill may keep the name of Draper; 
In fpite of envy flourlfh ftill, 
And Draper’s vie with Cooper’s Hill. Swift. 
MARKET JEW'. See Marazion, p. 333. , 
MARKET LAV'INGTON. See Lavington (Ealt), 
vol. xii. p. 297, 8. 
MAR'KET-MAN, f. One who goes to the market to 
fell or buy.—The market-man (hould aft as if his mafter’s 
whole eftate ought to be applied to that fervant’s bufinefs. 
Swift . 
Be wary how you place your words: 
Talk like the vulgar fort of market-rhen , 
That come to gather money for their corn, Shakefpeare. 
MAR'KET-MAIDjA A woman that goes to buy or 
fell: 
You are come 
A market-maid to Rome, and have prevented 
The oltentation of our love. Shakefpeare. 
MARKET OV'ERTON, a town or village of Rut- 
landfliire, three miles from Okeham, had anciently a mar¬ 
ket, and was called Overton, from its fituation on a hilly 
ground. Here is fuppoled to have been a Ration of the 
Romans, many of their coins having been found here. 
Its market, which was on Tuefday, was procured in the 
reign of Edward II. together with its fairs on May 6, and 
Oft. 18. 
MAR'KET-PLACE, f. The place where the market 
is held.—The king, thinking he had put up his fword 
becaufe of the noile, never took leifure to hear his an- 
fvver, but made him prifoner, meaning the next morning 
to put him to death in the market-place. Sidney. 
Behold the market-place with poor o’erfpread : 
The man of Rofs divides the weekly bread. Pope. 
MARKET-PRI'CE, or Market-rate,/. The price 
at which any thing is currently fold.—Money governs 
the world, and the market-price is the meafure of the worth 
of men as well as of fillies. L'Ejlrange. —He that wants a 
veffel, rather than lofe his market will not Hick to have 
it at the market-rate. Locke. 
MARKET RAI'SIN, or East Raisin, (to diftinguilh. 
it from the villages of Weft and Middle Raifin,) a final! 
market-town in the county of Lincoln, fituated on the 
banks of the river Raifen, w hence it derives its name, at 
the diftance of fifteen miles north-eaft from Lincoln, and 
149 north-weft from London. According to the popula¬ 
tion-returns of 1811, it contains 164 houfes, and 964 inha¬ 
bitants. Here is a weekly market on Thurfday; and there 
are fairs every alternate Tuefday, after Palm Sunday, and 
on the 25th of September. The church is an ancient 
ftrufture, remarkable for the peculiar form of the upper 
windows in its embattled tower: thefe have a pointed 
arch, divided into two pointed lights, and a quater foil 
head. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the crown; 
and, by the endowment, the vicar is entitled to the un- 
ufual tythe of ale. Befides the church, here are a Roman- 
catholic chapel and a Methodift meeting-houfe; alio a 
free-fchool, and an hofpital for poor old men. Lat. 53. 
27. N. Ion. o. 6. W. 
At a fhort diftance from Market-Raifin are the villages 
of Middle and Weft Raifin.—Middle Raifin was formerly 
divided into two parifhes, called Drax and Tupholm; but 
thefe are now united. At Tupholm Hood an abbey of 
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