Also that every person yᵗ bringeth grayne to sell in this markett, yᵗ they open not before Tenne of yᵉ clocke, nor to stand after one of yᵉ clock, under ye payne of forfeiture.
How long this form of Proclamation remained in force does not appear, but probably for several centuries later. See 1855. It is seen that regulations against adulteration and other wrongdoings of traders, are not so modern as is sometimes supposed.
About this period, and probably earlier, a piece of stuff for a gown was bought for every fellow of St. John’s College at this fair. See “Early Stat. of St. John’s Col. Cambr.” 1859.
CHAPTER X.
SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
1550.
For the better preservation of peace during the fair the Lieutenants and Commissioners of the University ordered a “night watch” to be kept by the scholars and townsmen. The colleges were to supply the watchmen to the number of twenty in the aggregate “to be thir in redynes, harneshed and weponed, befor the bell of Sᵗ Johns at vii of the clock be ceased; in defawt whereof every college in whom such defawt shal be, to paye to the Proctours xii d, wherewith to find other in their roms” Item, that over and beyond the said number the said Colleges have in redynes other xxiiii according to the rate aforesaid.