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
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 9 |
| Anglo-Saxon Markets | 11 |
| Effect of the Conquest | 14 |
| New Creations | 16 |
| Market-Places | 19 |
| Smithfield Market under Henry II. | 24 |
| Special Privileges | 25 |
| Pied Poudre Courts | 26 |
| Profits | 30 |
| Pre-emption and Prisage | 36 |
| Market Houses | 39 |
| Enforcement of Regularity | 40 |
| Supervision of Sales | 44 |
| Foreign Merchants | 48 |
| Miscellaneous Points of Interest | 51 |
| Degeneration of Fairs | 54 |
EDITOR'S GENERAL PREFACE.
This series of source-books aims at providing illustrations of variousaspects of English history at a price that will enable the teacher toplace them in the hands of the pupils themselves. All teachers ofhistory are agreed as to the value of using the "original documents" intheir work as a means of making their pupils realise that they arestudying human life in past ages, but hitherto the consideration ofprice has confined the use of them almost entirely to the teachersthemselves. In the series here prepared for the use of scholars andteachers alike the volumes are each devoted to one aspect of history,so that the teacher can select that one which will illustrate theparticular line taken. Thus, one will be on "Markets and Fairs," foruse when the teaching has an economic basis, another will de