Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in EnglandDouglas-Irvine, Helen
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Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
Douglas-Irvine, Helen
Fairs; Great Britain -- History -- Sources; Markets -- England
The foreign or country poulterers shall stand between Mauger Hall and
the tenement called Somenois Inn....
The sellers of white bread shall stand on each side of Quatervois, from
the north head thereof toward the south.
The tanners shall stand between Somenois Inn and Quatervois.
The sellers of cheese, eggs, milk, beans, new peas, and butter, shall
stand on Quatervois Corner on each side of the way towards the Bailly.
The sellers of hay and grass at the pillory.
The sellers of rushes and brooms opposite to the Old Drapery.
The sellers of corn shall stand between North Gate and Mauger Hall.
The fruiterers ... shall stand from Guildhall down towards Knap Hall.
The sellers of herbs ... shall stand from Knap Hall towards Quatervois.
The sellers of dishes ... between Baptys Inn and Stokenrow, near to the
Palace.
The sellers of fresh fish which are of the Gild shall stand as they
were formerly wont to do, under the palace of Nicholas the Spicer.
The sellers of wood from the great Jewry to the tables where fish is
sold.
The carts with thorns and bushes shall stand between North Gate and
Drapery Hall on the west side of the street.
Oxford Hist. Soc., _Collectanea_, II. 13 (reprint of MS. of Anthony
Wood).
[3] Foreign here denotes all persons not inhabitants of
Oxford.
SMITHFIELD HORSE AND CATTLE MARKET UNDER HENRY II.
Outside one of the gates there (in London), immediately in the suburb,
is a certain field, smooth (Smith) field in fact and name. Every
Friday, unless it be a higher day of appointed solemnity, there is in
it a famous show of noble horses for sale. Earls, barons, and many
citizens who are in town, come to see or buy. It is pleasant to see the
steppers in quick trot going gently up and down, their feet on each
side alternately rising and falling. On this side are the horses most
fit for esquires, moving with harder pace yet swiftly, that lift and
set down together, as it were, the opposite fore and hind feet; on that
side colts of fine breed who, not yet well used to the bit,
"Altius incedunt, et mollia crura reponunt."[4]
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