{"id":326,"date":"2011-10-25T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/10\/medieval-fairs-and-market-towns.html"},"modified":"2016-05-21T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:20:31","slug":"medieval-fairs-and-market-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/10\/medieval-fairs-and-market-towns.html","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Fairs and Market Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/medieval-fairs-and-market-towns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/medieval-fairs-and-market-towns.jpg\" alt=\"medieval fairs and market towns\" width=\"432\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After quitting Soberton Down, we came up a hill leading to Hambledon, and turned off to our left to bring us down to Mr. Goldsmith&#8217;s at West End, where we now are, at about a mile from the village of Hambledon.<\/p>\n<p>A village it <em>now<\/em> is; but it was formerly a considerable market-town, and it had three fairs in the year. Wens [large overcrowded cities] have devoured market-towns and villages; and shops have devoured markets and fairs; and this, too, to the infinite injury of the most numerous classes of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Shop-keeping, merely as shop-keeping, is injurious to any community. What are the shop and the shop-keeper for? To receive and distribute the produce of the land. There are other articles, certainly; but the main part is the produce of the land. The shop must be paid for; the shop-keeper must be kept.<\/p>\n<p>When fairs were frequent, shops were not needed. A manufacturer of shoes, of stockings, of hats; of almost anything that man wants, could manufacture at home in an obscure hamlet, with cheap house-rent, good air, and plenty of room. He need pay no heavy rent for shop; and no disadvantages from confined situation; and then, by attending three or four or five or six fairs in a year, he sold the work of his hands, unloaded with a heavy expense attending the keeping of a shop.<\/p>\n<p>Quoted from: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rural_Rides\" target=\"_blank\">Rural Rides<\/a>&#8220;, William Cobbett, 1830.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After quitting Soberton Down, we came up a hill leading to Hambledon, and turned off to our left to bring us down to Mr. Goldsmith&#8217;s at West End, where we now are, at about a mile from the village of Hambledon. A village it now is; but it was formerly a considerable market-town, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,170,315,16,171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}