. The North Devon coast. OLD ROOM IN THE TREVELYAN ARMS. Barnstaples prosperous old days, when all goodswere sea-borne, and when its importance as capitalof North Devon was impossible to be questionedby undue ease of communication with distantcities, is the curious old loggia, or covered way,known as Queen Annes Walk. Not QueenAnne, but the Barnstaple merchants, walked here,and it was really built in the reign of Charles the i68 THE NORTH DEVON COAST vSecond. It was the merchants Exchange, theirRialto, where all news was discussed, bargainsmade, and debts paid. All those uses are pastand done
. The North Devon coast. OLD ROOM IN THE TREVELYAN ARMS. Barnstaples prosperous old days, when all goodswere sea-borne, and when its importance as capitalof North Devon was impossible to be questionedby undue ease of communication with distantcities, is the curious old loggia, or covered way,known as Queen Annes Walk. Not QueenAnne, but the Barnstaple merchants, walked here,and it was really built in the reign of Charles the i68 THE NORTH DEVON COAST vSecond. It was the merchants Exchange, theirRialto, where all news was discussed, bargainsmade, and debts paid. All those uses are pastand done with, but the curious flat-topped pedestalremains in front, on which those old traders paidtheir debts. Exactly such things are still to beseen, for example, outside the Exchange at they are called nails ; and from themand this own brother to them derived the expres-sion of paying for anything * on the nail. Now-. QUEEN ANNE S WALK. adays the saying is a synonym for paying readymoney, but it would no doubt be incorrect to de-duce from it the lack of long credit in times of only association this building has with QueenAnne is found in the statue of her, surmounting it,dated 1708, the gift of Robert Rolle of Steven-stone. Barnstaple Friday market, held every week, isto this day an astonishing revelation to the strangerof the amount of business done in the great marketbuildings. On any other day he will find the townso quiet that the excellent shops and the many HISTORY, COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE 169 strikingly expensive new buildings seem to requiresome explanation. Friday, however, when everystreet is thronged, removes any such the annual occasion of Barnstaple Fair,opened with some ceremony on September 19thby the Mayor, is still a great event in North that momentous day the Mayor and Corpora-tion regale a select company at lunch, after anold custom, with spiced ale a
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