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| Cobbett's Hampshire
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Weyhill
sheep
sheep fair
Weyhill Fair
Appleshaw Fair
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To Weyhill, which is a village of half a dozen houses on a down,
just above Appleshaw, they bring from the down-farms in Wiltshire
and Hampshire, where they are bred, the South-down sheep: ewes
go away into the pasture and turnip countries to have lambs,
wethers to be fatted and killed, and lambs (nine months old) to
be kept to be sheep. At both fairs there is supposed to be about
two hundred thousand sheep. ...
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Blount, Mr
Weyhill Fair
Herbert, John
Jolliffe, Mr
Crux Easton
Stoke
sheep price
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Mr. BLOUNT, at whose house (7 miles from Weyhill) I am, went with
me to the fair; and we took particular pains to ascertain the
prices. We saw, and spoke to, Mr. John Herbert, of Stoke (near
Uphusband), who was asking 20s., and who did not expect to get
it, for South Down ewes, just such as he sold, last year (at this
fair), for 36s. Mr. JOLLIFFE, of Crux-Easton, was asking 16s.
for just such ewes as he sold, last year (at this fair), for 32s.
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Holdway, Mr
sheep price
Smallpiece, Mr
horse fair
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Farmer HOLDWAY had sold 'for less than half' his last year's
price. A farmer that I did not know, told us, that he had sold
to a great sheep-dealer of the name of Smallpiece at the latter's
own price! I asked him what that 'own price' was; and he said
that he was ashamed to say. The horse-fair appeared to have no
business at all going on; for, indeed, how were people to
purchase horses, who had only got half-price for their sheep?
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