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    Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
    Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
    Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
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    Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England - Helen Douglas-Irvine

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      Title: Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England

      Author: Helen Douglas-Irvine

      Release Date: September 8, 2013 [EBook #43667]

      Language: English

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      SOURCE BOOKS OF ENGLISH HISTORY FOR USE IN SCHOOLS

      Edited by K. H. VICKERS, M.A.

      EXTRACTS RELATING TO MEDIAEVAL

      MARKETS AND FAIRS IN ENGLAND

      EXTRACTS RELATING

      TO MEDIAEVAL MARKETS

      AND FAIRS IN ENGLAND

      BY

      HELEN DOUGLAS-IRVINE

      M.A. St. Andrews

      AUTHOR OF THE ROYAL PALACES OF SCOTLAND, THE HISTORY OF LONDON

      LONDON

      MACDONALD & EVANS

      4, ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, W.C.

      1912

      CONTENTS

      EDITOR'S GENERAL PREFACE.

      This series of source-books aims at providing illustrations of various aspects of English history at a price that will enable the teacher to place them in the hands of the pupils themselves. All teachers of history are agreed as to the value of using the original documents in their work as a means of making their pupils realise that they are studying human life in past ages, but hitherto the consideration of price has confined the use of them almost entirely to the teachers themselves. In the series here prepared for the use of scholars and teachers alike the volumes are each devoted to one aspect of history, so that the teacher can select that one which will illustrate the particular line taken. Thus, one will be on Markets and Fairs, for use when the teaching has an economic basis, another will deal with political events, and another with the social side of history. Great care has been taken to secure extracts from contemporary and reliable authorities.

      K. H. V.

      INTRODUCTION

      Fairs and markets are not different institutions—a fair is a market of a particular kind, an important market held not once or several times a week, but once or several times a year. The customs, the rights, and the law of markets are therefore relevant to fairs; and generalisations as to markets apply to fairs.

      There is no direct evidence as to the origin of markets and fairs in England. Early Oriental and classical literature indicate that they have served all peoples whose development has reached a certain stage. As communities cease to be entirely self-supporting trade arises naturally; and trade is obviously facilitated by a concentration in particular places at particular times of sellers and buyers. Certain of these gatherings had in the ninth century already been regularised in England as markets. The king or other lord had become responsible for the validity of sales in them, and suffered them to take place within the territory over which he had power. In return he received from the market people tolls, fines for transgressions, and other dues, which were a considerable source of profit, sufficient to make the tenancy of a market an object of desire. It was frequently acquired by a religious house.

      It is noteworthy that the king was regarded as the original holder of all market right in England. The lord who had a market on his manor, whether in virtue of a royal charter or by force of a custom of which the beginning had been forgotten, was considered to exercise a right which initially had been derived from the king. In historic times the establishment of new markets has been, until recently, only possible by means of a royal grant.

      ANGLO-SAXON MARKETS.

      873-99. Grant to the church of St. Peter, Worcester, of half the rights of Worcester Market.

      To Almighty God, true Unity and holy Trinity in heaven, be praise and glory and rendering of thanks, for all his benefits bestowed upon us. Firstly for whose love and for St. Peter's and the church at Worcester, and at the request of Werfrith the bishop, their friend, Aethelraed the ealdorman, and Aethelflaed commanded the burh at Worcester to be built, and eke God's praise to be there upraised. And now they make known by this charter that of all the rights which appertain to their lordship, both in market and in street, within the

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