It was also enacted by General Assembly the same year, " that there shall likewise be held and kept twice yearly and every year, Pifuir, to which fair it shall and may be likewise lawful for all and every person to go and frequent, &c., two fairs yearly for the county of Westchester; the first to be kept at the town of Westchester in the said county on the second Tuesday of May and to and on the Friday following, being in all four days, exclusive and no longer, and the second fair to be kept at Rye in the said county on the second Tuesday in October yearly and to end the Friday following, d:c., &c."'^ These privileges were subsequently confirmed and enlarged. <=

The following charter, incorj)orating the ancient settlement of Westchester as a borough town, was granted on the ICth of April, 1 096:

ROYAL CHARTER.

Gulielmus Tertius Dei Gratia, Angliae, Scotiae, Gallioe et Hibernia', Rex fidei defensor, &c. &c. " To all to whome these presents shall come, sendeth greeting : Whereas, Richard Nicholls, Esq., sometime Governor General of our province of New York, in America, by a certain writing or patent under his hand and seal, bearing date on or about ye 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord God, 1G67, by virtue of the power and authority unto him given, did give, ratify, confirm and grant, unto John Quim.by, John Ferris, Nicholas Bailey, William Betts, and Edward Walters, as pattentees for and on the behalf of themselves and their associates, the freeholds and inhabitants of the town of Westchester, within our sd, province of New York, all that