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- noun Plural form of
fayre .
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Fast-forwurd to nao – I iz myusician wif 3 CDs soon to be 4 an evry summr I goes to manee fayres to play moosic an make magic for peeples.
DnD kitteh morns loss of Gary Gygax - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I know I bought a couple of times at university but that was usually at the beginning of the year when the freshers fayres were going at full steam, newspapers were on special offer and the good old DT could be utilised as an effective tool to ward off Trots.
A (Sick) Day in the Life Johnny Guitar 2007
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I know I bought a couple of times at university but that was usually at the beginning of the year when the freshers fayres were going at full steam, newspapers were on special offer and the good old DT could be utilised as an effective tool to ward off Trots.
Archive 2007-06-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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These things euery night as I passed vp and downe the riuer I saw for the space of two moneths, as I passed to the fayres to buy my commodities with the marchants.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if peraduenture any strife arise about the same bargaine, the triall and inquirie thereof shall be made according to the vses and customes of the fayres and townes where it chanced that the said bargaine was made and contracted.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item, we will that all bayliffes and officers of fayres, cities, boroughs, and market townes shall doe speedie iustice from day to day without delay accgrdmg to the lawe of Marchants to the aforesayd marchants when they shall complaine before them, touching all and singuler causes, which may be determined by the same law.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And that euery man may haue a weight of one quarter of an hundred, and vnder, where the same hath not bin contrary to the liberty of the lord of the place, and contrary to the libertie granted by vs and our predecessors, or contrary to the custome of townes and fayres which hath hitherto beene obserued.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if peraduenture any strife arise about the same bargaine, the triall and inquirie thereof shall be made according to the vses and customes of the fayres and townes where it chanced that the said bargaine was made and contracted.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Item, we will that all bayliffes and officers of fayres, cities, boroughs, and market townes shall doe speedie iustice from day to day without delay accgrdmg to the lawe of Marchants to the aforesayd marchants when they shall complaine before them, touching all and singuler causes, which may be determined by the same law.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And that euery man may haue a weight of one quarter of an hundred, and vnder, where the same hath not bin contrary to the liberty of the lord of the place, and contrary to the libertie granted by vs and our predecessors, or contrary to the custome of townes and fayres which hath hitherto beene obserued.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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