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.
1298. To the Sheriff of Hereford.