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Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).

Date

[1824?]

Reference

23495i

By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Fayre, Sturbridge Fayre, and Our Lady Fayre in Southwarke.

Date

M.DC.XXX. [1630]

A walk to Smith-field: or, a true discription of the humours of Bartholomew-fair, with the many comical intrigues and frolicks that are acted in every particular booth in the fair, by persons of all ages and sexes, from the court gallant to the countrey clown: with the old droll-players lamentation for the loss of their yearly revenues; being very pleasant and deverting [sic].

Date

1701]

By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Faire, and Sturbridge Faire.

Date

1625

By the Queene. The Queenes most excellent Maiestie in her princely nature, considering how dangerous a matter it is by continuance of the faire called Bartholomew faire.

Date

[1593]

Reasons formerly published for the punctual limiting of Bartholomew Fair to those three days to which it is determined by the Royal Grant of it to the city of London. Now Reprinted with Additions, to prevent a Design set on Foot to procure an Establishment of the said Fair for Fourteen Days. Humbly Addressed To the present Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, to the Worshipful Court of Aldermen, and to the Common Council of the said City.

Date

Printed in the Year, 1711

By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Fair and Sturbridge Fair.

Date

1666

By the King. A proclamation for putting off this next Bartholomew Faire in Smithfield, and our Lady Faire in Southwarke.

Date

1637

By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Fair, and Sturbridge Fair.

Date

1665

The perpetual fair : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London / Anne Wohlcke.

Date

2014