Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England by Helen Douglas-Irvine

Author:Helen Douglas-Irvine [Douglas-Irvine, Helen]
Language: eng
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Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781465585073
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Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2015-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

PRE-EMPTION AND PRISAGE.

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The king exercised certain rights of pre-emption, of buying articles before they were offered for sale in the open market, and of prisage, of taking from the sellers without payment certain articles for his own use.

1207. The King to the Sheriff of Lincoln.

We command you that you acquit in the fair of St. Botolph all the great falcons which Henry de Hauvill and Hugh de Hauvill bought for our use in that fair, … and moreover five hawks which they bought there for our use.

Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), I. 85.

1218. The King to the Mayor of Lynn greeting.

We command you that you satisfy the merchants of the fair of Lynn as to the merchandise, namely, wax and pepper and cumin, which our bailiffs took in that fair for our use, and we shall cause payment to be made to you in London after the close of the said fair.

Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), I. 365.

1237. It was provided at Kennington before the king and his council, and granted by the king, that his bailiffs who are sent to fairs and elsewhere to buy wine and cloths and other merchandise for the king's use, shall take for his use no more than he have need of, and no more than shall be stated in the king's letters made for them as to the matter, nor anything for which they have not as warrant a royal brief. And when they come to fairs they shall take the wares and merchandise for which they have been sent at once and without long delay, lest any merchants be unjustly burdened by them, as formerly they have been burdened. And such bailiffs shall have letters so that four legal merchants of each fair, in the faith which binds them to God and the king, reasonably impose prices on the merchandise, in accordance with the diverse kinds of merchandise which the bailiffs have to buy.

Cal. of Close, 1234-7, 522.

1257. Petition of the barons in the parliament at Oxford.

The earls and barons petition … as to the prises of the lord king in fairs and markets and cities, that those who are assigned to take the said prises take them reasonably, as much, that is to say, as pertains to the uses of the lord king; in which matter they complain that the said takers seize twice or thrice the amount which they deliver to the king's uses, and keep the rest, forsooth, for their own needs and the needs of their friends, and sell thereof a portion.

Stubbs, Select Charters, 385.

1417. A Court of our Lord the King, holden before Henry Bartone, Mayor, and the Aldermen, in the Guild-hall of London, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February….

William Redhede of Barnet was taken and attached, for that when one Hugh Morys, maltman, on Monday the 15th day of February, … brought here to the city of London four bushels of wheat, and exposed them for sale in common and open market, at the market of Graschurch (Gracechurch) in the parish of St.

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