Thorpe, _Ancient Laws and Institutes_, 212.
1214. _Grant of a market and fair to William of Lancaster._
THE KING TO THE SHERIFF OF WESTMORELAND GREETING.
Know that we have granted to our beloved and faithful William of Lancaster that we have every week a market at his manor of Barton on Thursday, and that he have a fair there every year to last two days, the vigil and the feastday of All Saints. And therefore we command you to cause that the said William have the market and fair according to the tenor of our charter which he has.
_Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus._ (Rec. Com.), I. 173.
1215. _Grant of a market to the men of Beer Hackett._
THE KING TO THE SHERIFF OF DORSET GREETING.
Know that we have granted to our men of Beer that they have a market at Beer every week on Wednesday, so that it be not to the injury of neighbouring markets. And therefore we command you to cause them thus to have that market.
_Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus._ (Rec. Com.), I. 220.
1205. _Creation of a royal fair having for three years special privileges._
Mandate to the sheriff of Oxford that he cause a fair to be at Wallingford every year to last for four days, for Friday in Pentecost week and the three following days, and that that fair be free and quit of toll and all customs which pertain to such fairs for three years.
Given by the Lord King at Oxford on the 28th day of March.
_Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus._ (Rec. Com.), I. 24.
A fair or market was sometimes bought from the crown.
1221. _Remission of the price of the right to hold a market and fair._
THE KING TO THE BARONS OF THE EXCHEQUER GREETING.
Know that for God's sake we have pardoned the abbot of Hale the palfrey by which he made fine to us for having a market every week on Wednesday at Hale, and a fair every year lasting for two days, the eve and the feastday of St. Dennis, that thus he may make two chalices in his abbey.
_Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus._ (Rec. Com.), 477.
Order to supersede entirely the levying of 11 marks from Miles Pychard, for the fee of a charter of fair and market granted in the twenty-third year of the reign, as Miles paid this sum into the wardrobe by the hands of John de Drokenesforde, keeper thereof.
1331. TO THE TREASURER AND BARONS OF THE EXCHEQUER.
Order to cause William de Pynlande, clerk, to be discharged of 50s. yearly for the fair of Lopen in Somerset, ... the king having committed the fair to Gilbert Talebot for the term of twenty years.