on Fridays, for butcher's meat and other necessaries : but both are at present unfrequented. There is likewise an annual Fair for stock and pedlary goods on the 14th of May, which, though diminished, is still of some resort.
This place, though now so small, contains a number of genteel families, and some good houses. Here was formerly a consider able manufactory of cambrics, which occupied part of one of the old squares ; but the proprietors, after exhausting the greatest part of their capital in erecting workshops, and two large houses (now the property of, and inhabited by, the Rev. Mr. Hollingberry, and Francis Denne, Esq.) for the principal managers, failed ; and the whole was let to Messrs. Kirkman, Nouaille, and Clay, who established an Italian Crape Manufactory, and carried it on with great success for a number of years. Since that has been given up, the buildings have been converted into barracks for the troops quartered there.
It was here that the two noted Westons -
