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0ri the articles exposed to sale, termed custom-dues, which, inthe one case, belongs to the proprietor on whose land thefair is situated ; and in the other, to the Magistrates of thehurgh where the market is held.

Denomination _In Scotland, fairs are classed, either ac-

c °rding to the commodities exposed to sale, or the nature ofthe business transacted in them, and are so denominated.There are fairs for cattle, sheep, horses, cloth, &e. held on® e parate days; and, in some instances, the whole are com-bined. There are also fairs appropriated entirely to the en-gaging of servants, particularly for agricultural purposes.

Markets. —In the sense we have viewed them, markets arepeculiar to towns; and held once or twice a-week for sup-plying the inhabitants with meal, butcher-meat, fish, &c.There are also corn-markets, held weekly, for disposing ofgrain, either by presenting the stock, or by sample; whichlast mode has been generally adopted in the northern districts°f Scotland .

Trysts _Trysts are similar to fairs in their object, and are

common in Scotland . They may be termed meetings by ap-pointment, as they are held for the mutual accommodation ofbuyers and sellers, and are not authorised by charter, but re-gulated by the proprietors of the land where they are situa-ted.

Object of fairs and trysts. —The utility of fairs and trystss eems to arise, from the opportunity they afford, both to buy-

*he Sabbath, which are now prohibite, may choice any other day in the weektor holding the same, if it be not the merest day of the next town.’ It was,however, afterwards enacted, ‘ that no royal burgh keep mercat on Monday orSaturday, under the pain of an hundred merles , but that they change the sameto other days; but fleshers in these burghs may keep flesh meat on these days.’(Charles II, P. 1, sess. 3, ch. 19.). This act was ratified by William and Mary ,b- 1, ses. S, ch. 14, ‘ provided they’ (burghs of regality and barony) ‘ make iu-•iniation to the next adjacent burghs, and pitch not on the mercat day of anyr °yal burgh, or mercat town, within four miles, fleshers excepted.’