Since the place godly to him (Rahere) shown was contained within the king's market, of the which it was not lawful to princes or other lords, of their proper authority, anything to diminish, neither yet to so solemn an obsequy to depute: therefore, using ... men's counsel, in opportune time he addressed him to the king, and before him, and the Bishop Richard (de Belmeis, Bishop of London) being present, the which he had made to him favourable before, effectually expressed his business, and that he might lawfully bring his purpose to effect meekly besought. And nigh him was he (St. Bartholomew) in whose hand it was, to what he would the king's heart to incline, and ineffectual these prayers might not be, whose author is the apostle, whose gracious hearer was God: his word therefore was pleasant and acceptable in the king's eye. And when he had weighed the good will of the man prudently, as he was witty, he granted to the petitioner his kingly favour, benignly giving authority to execute his purpose. And he, having the title of the desired possession, of the king's majesty, was right glad. _Book of the Foundation of the Church of St. Bartholomew, London._ Original Latin version (Cotton MS., Vesp., B. IX., fols. 41-3), written 1174-89. Old English version written about 1400 and edited by Norman Page. In the greater markets particular places were assigned to the sellers of particular wares. _Ancient Regulation of Oxford market renewed in 1319._ The sellers of straw, with their horses and carts that bring it, shall stand between East Gate and All Saints' church, in the middle of the king's highway. The sellers of wood in carts shall stand between Shydyerd Street and the tenement sometime of John Maidstone.... The sellers of timber shall stand between the tenement which is called St. George's Hall and St. Edward's Lane.... The sellers of hogs and pigs shall stand between the churches of St. Mary and All Saints and on the north side of the street. The ale or beer shall stand between St. Edward's Lane and the tenement sometime of Alice de Lewbury on the south side of the king's highway. The sellers of earthen pots and coals shall stand between the said lane of St. Edward and the tenement sometime of John Hampton ... and from that place upward. The sellers of gloves and whittawyers shall stand between All Saints' church and the tenement which was sometime John the Goldsmith's.... The sellers of furs (? monianiorum) and linendrapers and langdrapers shall stand from the tenement which was John the Goldsmith's to the tenement of the abbot of Osney, in the corner, which John Smith sometime inhabited. The bakers selling bread called Tutesyn shall stand between the shop which Nicholas the Spicer now holdeth and the tenement which John Coyntroyer holdeth. The foreign[3] sellers of fish and those that are not free or of the Gild shall stand on market days behind the said sellers of bread, towards the middle of the street.