Note 88 — LXVIII.
Reading edition
Sturbridge fair was the great mart for business, and resort for pleasure, in bishop Earle's day. It is alluded to in Randolph's Conceited Pedlar, 4to. 1630.
"I am a pedlar, and I sell my ware This braue Saint Barthol. or Sturbridge faire."
Edward Ward, the facetious author of The London Spy, gives a whimsical account of a journey to Sturbridge, in the second volume of his works.