Fairs
From the beginning of February to the 12th of March.
| 1 | Bromley, Lancashire |
| 2 | Ashburn, Derbyshire |
| Armington, Devonshire | |
| Beconsfield, Bucks | |
| Bromley, Kent | |
| Bromley, Staffordshire | |
| Biggleswade, Bedfordshire | |
| Bugworth, Cheshire | |
| Bridgnorth, Shropshire | |
| Cray, Kent | |
| Devizes, Wiltshire | |
| Dorchester | |
| Eastlow, Cornwall | |
| Evesham, Worcestershire | |
| Godalming, Surry | |
| Farringdon, Berkshire | |
| Hambleton, Hampshire | |
| Hindon, Wilts | |
| Lyston Devonshire | |
| Leominster, Herefordshire | |
| Lyme, Dorsetshire | |
| Lynn, Norfolk | |
| Maidstone, Kent | |
| Malton, Yorkshire | |
| Reading, Berkshire | |
| Saltash, Cornwall | |
| 3 | Axbridge, Somersetshire |
| Boxgrove | |
| Blaise, Cornwall | |
| Frampton on Severn | |
| 6 | Stafford |
| 8 | Treganon, Cardiganshire |
| 9 | Llandaff, Glamorganshire |
| 14 | Ashbrittle, Somersetshire |
| Feversham, Kent | |
| Olney, Bucks | |
| Plympton, Devonshire | |
| 22 | Bath, Somersetshire |
| Chipping-norton, Oxfordshire | |
| 23 | Baldock, Hertfordshire |
| 24 | Bourn, Lincolnshire |
| Blandford, Dorsetshire | |
| Corsham, Wilts | |
| Brome, Somersetshire | |
| Higham ferries, Northamptonsh. | |
| Henley on Thames | |
| East Isley, Berkshire | |
| Tewksbury, Gloucestershire | |
| Uppingham, Rutlandshire | |
| 24 | Walden, Essex |
| 26 | Stamford, Lincolnshire |
| 28 | Chesterfield, Derbyshire |
Movable Fairs for the Month of February, and beginning of March, reduced to this Year.
Northalerton, Yorkshire, every Wednesday from Christmas till June.
Hinckley, Leicestershire, three Mondays after Twelfth-day.
Newcastle under Line, March 1st, as Shrove-monday.
Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, ditto.
| Abingdon, Berkshire | } On March the 3d, being Ash-Wednesd. this Year. |
| Condon, Gloucestersh. | |
| Chichester, Sussex | |
| Dunstable, Bedfordsh. | |
| Eaton, Buckinghamsh. | |
| Exeter, Devonshire | |
| Falkingham, Linc. | |
| Litchfield, Staff. | |
| Royston, Cambridgsh. | |
| Tamworth, Staff. | |
| Tunbridge, Kent |
Banbury, Oxf. March 4. as first Thursday in Lent.
| Abingdon, Berks | } March 8 as first Monday in Lent. |
| Chertsey, Surry | |
| Chichester, Sussex | |
| Winchester, Hants. |
Bedford, March the 9th.
Wickwar, Gloucestershire last Monday in February.
Welchpool, Montgomeryshire, March the 8th.
FAIRS the beginning of March.
| 1 | Culliford, Devonshire |
| Langueville, Glamorgansh. | |
| Madrim | |
| 2 | Langadock, Carmarthenshire |
| 3 | Sevenoke, Kent |
| 5 | Penzance, Cornwall |
| 6 | Harif |
| 7 | Worksop, Nottinghamshire |
| 8 | Treganon, Cardiganshire |
| 10 | Downes, Devonshire |
| 12 | Wrexham, Denbighshire |
| Woburn, Bedfordshire |
Observations in Gardening for the Month of February.
This is a month of great work for the gardener.
In the kitchen-garden renew the heat of your hot-beds with fresh dung, and continue to sow cucumbers and melons as in the former month.
Make a large hot-bed for forward rhadishes and spring carrots; they may be sown together, because the rhadishes be drawn in March, whereby they will make room for the carrots. The bed must be cover’d with earth 7 or 8 inches thick, and defended with mats, supported with hoops.
Make a hot-bed for Battersey kidney-beans, and all sorts of annuals, except African and French marigold, which may be deferr’d 10 or 20 days. About the middle of the month, upon a declining hot-bed sow colly-flower seeds; also in the natural ground pease, beans, parsley, spinach, carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, leeks, Dutch brown lettuce, and asparagus-seeds.
Sow skerrits in light rich ground, where they may have moisture.
Plant garlick, shalots, and rockambole, for increase, in light ground.
Transplant young cabbage-plants for a crop.
Make plantations of straw-berries, rasberries, goose-berries, currants, and roses.
Elm-setts should now be gather’d from the roots of large trees, and planted in nursery-beds, and young plantations should be now provided with all sorts of forest-trees and shrubs, which are propagated from slips or layers.
Set acorns of the Ilex, cork-tree, English oak, chestnuts, and walnuts.
Sow the sameria of the elm, and bay berries, all which come up the first year.
Lay branches of several trees to take root. This is the best time to raise any thing that will grow of slips.
Prune fruit-trees and vines; for now is your season to bind, plash, nail, and dress, without danger of frosts. This is to be understood of the most tender and delicate wall-fruits not finish’d before: do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the nectarine and like delicate mural fruit, the later the better, notwithstanding what has been, and still is the contrary custom.
The latter end of this month is most proper to graft pears and plums of all sorts; and some likewise graft apples and cherries in the cleft, tho’ others defer apples longer. The cyons cut off from the trees last month, are now to be used, without having any regard to the notion of the age of the moon.
Now, as well as in October, may be planted the espaliers of pears, plums, or apples, so useful as well as profitable in a garden; for being planted a convenient distance from a fruit wall, they are an admirable defence against blighting winds, and produce noble fruit.
Rub moss from trees after a shower of rain; scrape and cleanse them from cankers, &c. Cut and lay quick-sets, and trim up palasade hedges.
Earth up the roots of uncover’d fruit-trees, and drain superfluous moisture from roots of trees. Lay bird-lime for the bird called the tit, or tit-mouse, which is a destructive enemy to dwarf pears and plums in this and the preceding month, by destroying the buds.
The beginning of this month you may sow auricula seeds in cases fill’d with light earth, and the seeds of the polyanthois in some shady border.
Transplant all sorts of flowering shrubs, which bear the weather; as roses, jessamine, hony-suckle, laburnum, lelac, syringa, spipeas, altheas, &c. You may make layers of roses, pomegranates, phillyrea, laurus-tinus, and other shrubs.
Cut the Spanish jessamine within 4 inches of the stem, giving them fresh earth, likewise give fresh earth to your carnations planted out in Autumn. Towards the latter end sow lark-spurs, hollyhocks, Canterbury bells, primrose-tree, sweet-williams, annual stocks, candy-tufts, pinks, &c.
Make plantations of the lilly of the valley on the side of some shady bank. Sow orange and lemon kernels in pots; set the pots in hot-beds; the kernels are to be used as soon as taken out of the fruit. Shift such myrtles as require large pots, at the same time shaving off the outside fibres of their root, and if there be occasion, prune their heads pretty close. Turn and skreen Mould for the use of next month, and continue to roll gravel-walks after rain and frost.
BOOKS, &c. published in the Month of January.
The history of executions, No. 7. Being a compleat account of the 13 malefactors executed at Tyburn for robberies in the streets and fields; 6 at Leicester and York, and two gentlemen at Dublin, pr. 4 d.
The present state of the republick of letters, for Nov.
Three pamphlets examin’d, viz. observations on the writings of the Craftsman; the Sequel; and further observations.
An ode to his Majesty for the new year, by Mr Cibber.
A letter to the author of An Enquiry into the Causes of the Decay of the Dissenting Interest, &c. pr. 6 d.
The political state of Great Britain for Dec.
A general history of executions for the year 1730, containing the lives, actions and dying speeches of sixty notorious malefactors executed at Tyburn and elsewhere, vol. I. pr. 2 s. 6 d.
The story of the ordination of our first bishops in Q. Elizabeth’s reign, at the Nags-head Tavern in Cheapside, thoroughly examin’d, &c. by Thomas Browne, D.D.
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The history of Periander, King of Corinth, &c. pr. 6 d.
A poem in answer to a lampoon on the Cambridge ladies, pr. 6d.
Sedition and Defamation display’d, in a letter to the author of the Craftsman, pr. 1 s.
Of despising young ministers; an ordination sermon at Haberdasher’s-hall, Dec. 18. 1730. by W. Harris, D. D.
A defence of the measures of the present administration, pr. 6 d.
Poems on several occasions, by Caleb D’anvers, Esq; pr. 1 s.
Scripture history, precepts and prophecy vindicated, the 2d part of christianity not older than the first gospel promise, by Ben. And. Atkinson, pr. 1 s.
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Winter evening tales, &c. pr. 2 s. 6 d.
The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts, by Sir Ed. Peyton, pr. 1 s.
The new political state of Great Britain, for Dec.
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Considerations on the present state of affairs in Europe, particularly with regard to the number of forces in the pay of Great Britain.
Miscellaneous observations on authors, ancient and modern, No. I.
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Periander, a tragedy, by Mr John Tracey.
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The monthly chronicle for Dec.
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The Improvement of the present time, recommended in two sermons on new year’s day, 1731, by John Guyse.
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The Lord protector’s speech to the parliament, in the painted chamber at their dissolution, Jan. 22. 1654. pr. 6 d.
Historia literaria, &c. No. VII.
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