_Gloves at Fairs_ (Vol. vii., p. 455.).--In Hone's _Every-day Book_ (vol.
ii. p. 1059.) is the following paragraph:--
"EXETER LAMMAS FAIR.--The charter for this fair is perpetuated by a
glove of immense size, stuffed and carried through the city on a very
long pole, decorated with ribbons, flowers, &c., and attended with
music, parish beadles, and the mobility. It is afterwards placed on the
top of the Guildhall, and then the fair commences: on the taking down
of the glove, the fair terminates.--P."
As to Crolditch, _alias_ Lammas Fair, at Exeter, see Izacke's _Remarkable
Antiquities of the City of Exeter_, pp. 19, 20.