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A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.

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An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.

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An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.

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A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).

The New Year and Whitsuntide Show fairs only arose during the 9th century.

Intercepts picked up a call Talon made to one of his guys who we know plans his recruitment fairs.

The town is an important agricultural centre, its fairs for sheep and ponies in particular being well attended.

All fairs and markets were sold with the manor to the inhabitants of the town.

Large markets and fairs are held for corn, hops, cattle and sheep; and the town contains some highly reputed ale breweries, besides paper mills and iron foundries.

These fairs have been held without interruption till the present day, their dates being October 2 and May 13.

Fairs are held on the 5th of April, 18th of July, 17th of November and 27th of November.

Now two yearly fairs for small wares are held on the 13th of May and the 11th of October.

The principal are Lisnaskea, Irvi nestown(formerly Lowtherstown), M aguires bridge, Tempo, Newtownbutler, Belleek, Derrygonnelly and Kesh, at which fairs are held.

Rhayader has for some centuries been an important centre for Welsh mutton and wool, and its sheep fairs are largely attended by drovers and buyers from all parts.

The abbot seems to have held a market from very early times, and charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various sovereigns from Edward I.

Finally, a great number of artels on the stock exchange, in the seaports, in the great cities, during the great fairs and on railways have grown up, and have acquired the confidence of tradespeople to such an extent that considerable sums of money and complicated banking operations are frequently handed over to an artelshik (member of an artel) without any receipt, his number or his name being accepted as sufficient guarantee.

The fairs are very numerous.

Altogether, no fewer than 16,600 fairs are held in Russia, 85% of them in European Russia.

Flour-milling and tanning are industries, and monthly cattle fairs are held.

The fairs now held on the 8th of May, the 26th of July and the first Monday after the 10th of October were granted to the bishop in 1227, 12 4 0 and 1300.

No charter has been found, but a judgment given under a writ of quo warranto in 1578 confirms to the burgesses freedom from toll, passage and pontage, the tolls and stallage of the quay and the right to hold two fairs - privileges which they claimed under charters of Baldwin de Redvers and Isabel de Fortibus, countess of Albemarle, in the 13th century, and Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon, in 1405.

Fairs on the 13th and 14th of May and the 2nd and 3rd of October, dating from the 13th century, are still held.

Two annual fairs are now held, namely on the first Monday in April and the second Monday in October.

They like the gossiping and bartering at the rural markets and in the larger fairs, which are sometimes held in strikingly picturesque localities.

Derbyshire cheeses are exported or sent to London in considerable quantities; and cheese fairs are held in various parts of the county, as at Ashbourne and Derby.

In the same year was passed the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act.

In connexion with the internal live stock trade of Great Britain attention must be directed to the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1891.

Competition, in the Darwinian sense, is characteristic not only of modern industrial states, but of all living organisms; and in the narrower sense of the " higgling of the market " is found on the Stock Exchange, in the markets of old towns, in medieval fairs and Oriental bazaars.

In 1587 Elizabeth granted certain privileges to Wareham, but it was not incorporated until 1703, when the existing fairs for April 6 and August 23 were granted.

In 1607 David Waterhouse, lord of the manor of Halifax, obtained a grant of two markets there every week on Friday and Saturday and two fairs every year, each lasting three days, one beginning on the 24th of June, the other on the 11th of November.

Later these fairs and markets were confirmed with the addition of an extra market on Thursday to Sir William Ayloffe, baronet, who had succeeded David Waterhouse as lord of the manor.

The trade with the interior is also carried on very briskly, especially at the twenty-six fairs, the chief of which are Balta and Yarmolintsy.

In 1332 a market on Wednesdays and a fair at the Feast of St Peter ad Vincula were granted to Alice de Lisle and in 1405 this market was ratified and three additional fairs added, viz.

Fishing is extensively carried on and cattle fairs are held.

He read plays, attended the village fairs, shot plovers in the fenland, and enjoyed a dance with his sisters.

Two fairs are held in Nola, on the 14th of June and the 12th of November; and the 26th of July is devoted to a great festival in honour of St Paulinus, one of the early bishops of the city, who invented the church bell (campana, taking its name from Campania).

In 1792 two annual fairs were held, one on Whit Monday, the other on the 10th of October; and a market was held every Saturday.

The market day is still Saturday, but the fairs are discontinued.

They were for some time compelled to find subsistence by exhibitions of feats of strength and agility at fairs and on the streets of London.

Its most important early charter was that granted in 1340 by Hugh le Despenser, whereby the burgesses acquired the right to nominate persons from whom the constable of the castle should select a bailiff and other officers, two ancient fairs, held on the 29th of June and, 9th of September, were confirmed, and extensive trading privileges were granted, including the right to form a merchant gild.

Important cattle and horse fairs are held here.

A weekly market was granted, two fairs yearly at Whitsuntide and Michaelmas, and many other privileges.

This charter obtained until in 1599 a second one incorporated the town by the name of "mayor and jurats" and regranted the market and fairs together with some additional privileges, among others that of returning members to parliament, which, however, was never exercised.

The great fair at Irbit retains its importance, and there are, besides, over 500 fairs in Tobolsk and over 100 in other parts of the region.

Queen Mary granted three new fairs, and James I.

The market day has been transferred to Friday, but the May and October fairs are continued.

Further annual fairs were granted by Edward III.

The fairs and markets are still held under these charters.

The medieval fairs are no longer held.

The first charter of incorporation was granted by Queen Mary in 1553, and instituted a common council consisting of a bailiff, 12 aldermen and 12 chief burgesses; a court of record, one justice of the peace, a Thursday market and two annual fairs.

Hemp and flax had an importance, lost between 1827 and 1849, but responsible in 1792 for fairs on Saturday and Monday before Palm Sunday.

There is considerable traffic in grain and cattle brought from the surrounding districts; and twice a year there are large horse fairs.

More freedom of trade was allowed at all times in the selling of wares by wholesale, and also in retail dealings during the time of markets and fairs.

The fairs of Leipzig and Frankfort-on-Main rose in importance as Novgorod, the stronghold of Hanse trade in the East, was weakened by the attacks of Ivan III.