. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Fairs were held by custom at Whalley on the feasts of the Conception and Annunciation of our Lad)', but in I 519 Henry V'lII transferred them to Clitheroe.*^ In 1292, how- ever, the lord claimed a Saturday market at Clitheroe by custom from the Conquest, and a fair on the day and morrow of St. Mary Magda- lene by grant of King John.*^ In 1825 the weekly market was on Tuesday and the annual fairs on 24-5 March, 1-2 August (Old St. Mary Magdalene), Friday and Satur- day after 29 September and 6-7 Decemb
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Fairs were held by custom at Whalley on the feasts of the Conception and Annunciation of our Lad)', but in I 519 Henry V'lII transferred them to Clitheroe.*^ In 1292, how- ever, the lord claimed a Saturday market at Clitheroe by custom from the Conquest, and a fair on the day and morrow of St. Mary Magda- lene by grant of King John.*^ In 1825 the weekly market was on Tuesday and the annual fairs on 24-5 March, 1-2 August (Old St. Mary Magdalene), Friday and Satur- day after 29 September and 6-7 December.'* In 1593 the burgesses claimed the goods and chattels of one John Lawson of Edisford who had been convicted of felony at York but had saved his life by ' the privilege and allowance of his clergy.' The goods had been taken by the said Lawson and another, and the burgesses petitioned Sir Francis Walsingham as Chancellor of the Duchy to inter- fere.'" The borough returned two members to Parlia- ment from 1559.'' In 1694 it was decided by the Borough of Clithe- Roi. A:^ur⬠on a mount â¢vert a casrie "with three domed to'wers or. House of Commons that the right of election was in the burgesses and freemen. The burgesses were such as had in any land or houses in the borough an estate of freehold or inheritance, and they were of two sortsâout-burgesses, who lived out of the borough, and in-burgesses who lived in the borough and had such an estate in houses or land there ; and both these had a right of electing. The freemen were such as lived in the houses within the borough as tenants, and they had the right of election when the landlords did not vote for those houses; but when they did the tenants had no right of electing.*''' In 1825 the burgage-holds were held by only three proprietors. Earl Brownlow, Earl Howe and Mr. Starkie of Huntroyde, and they returned the members.^^ By the Reform Act of 1832 this abuse was terminated, but only one member was allowed to
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