It reveals much of what went on during a fair: not simply the buying and selling but also the borrowing and lending, the eating and drinking and renting of rooms, the development of commercial techniques, the efforts to keep order and prevent fire, the varieties of entertainment. [...] The first is the economic and social role of the great cloth fairs: the nature and methods of trade and the means for organising the unusual social groupings they occasioned. [...] Wardrobe accounts supplement the purchasing information in the chancery records, and customs accounts reveal further aspects of the trade of particular merchants, and permit an analysis of the prosperity of the ports of Boston and Lynn, which served the East Anglian fairs, relative to the port of London, which did not. [...] Prologue The Great Fairs and Their Early History Liberate to Henry son of Giles £505 5s5dto the use of the merchants of Lincoln for cloths and panels \penulis] bought of them in the fair of Winchester in the 30th year, in the fairs of Stamford, St. [...] Mandate to the bailiffs and good men of Winchester to make known to all merchants coming to their city the provision of the King and Council that all the king's prises from merchants shall be paid at four terms of the year, to wit: prises due in the fair of Northampton shall be paid in the fair of St.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Abbreviations 11
- Acknowledgment 12
- A Note on the Quotations 14
- Introduction 16
- PART ONE: FAIRS 22
- Prologue: The Great Fairs and Their Early History 24
- The Annual Cycle of Fairs 25
- The History of the Fairs to 1250 27
- Conclusion 37
- 1 Merchandise 39
- Cloth 39
- Wool 62
- Other Merchandise 65
- Durham Cathedral Priory Purchases at Boston Fair, 1299 75
- 2 Merchants 78
- Activities of Individual Merchants 81
- Merchants at St. Ives 91
- Range of Fair Participants 100
- 3 Methods and Rules of Trade 108
- Municipal Merchant Groupings 110
- Methods of Trade 120
- Conditions of Sale 130
- Royal Purchases at Fairs 137
- Trading Regulations Enforced by Fair Officals 146
- 4 Administration 157
- The Fair Site 158
- Arrangement of Sales Places 161
- Safety, Health and Security Measures 169
- Law and Order in the Fair 173
- Fair Officials 181
- Costs of Running a Fair 201
- Income from the Fair 208
- Conclusion 217
- 5 The Later History of the Great Fairs 219
- Fluctuations of Growth and Decline 219
- Causes of the Decline 232
- PART TWO. RURAL FAIR TOWNS: ST. IVES 238
- Introduction 240
- 6 Land Tenure and Commerce 244
- The Manor of Slepe: St. Ives, The Green, Woodhurst, Old Hurst 244
- Tenurial Patterns Outside St. Ives 246
- Tenure in St. Ives 247
- 7 Town Economy and Society 264
- Villagers as Consumers 264
- Villagers as Enterpreneurs 265
- Economic Activity and Social Status: An Assessment 290
- PART THREE: CONCLUSION 294
- 8 Champagne and England: Fairs and Fair Towns 296
- The Fair Cycle 296
- Fair Towns: Provins and Bur-sur-Aube 305
- Epilogue 309
- Appendix 1. Flemish Regulations for Trade at English Fairs 312
- Appendix 2. Letters Relating to Royal Purchases at St. Ives Fair, 1300 318
- Appendix 3. Landholding in St. Ives 321
- Appendix 4. St. Ives Rentiers 325
- Appendix 5. Residents of St. Ives, 1251-1330 339
- Appendix 6. Concordance of Dates in the St. Ives Fair Court Rolls 363
- Bibliography 370
- Manuscript Sources 370
- Printed Sources 372
- Secondary Analyses 377
- Index 393
- A 393
- B 393
- C 396
- D 398
- E 399
- F 400
- G 401
- H 402
- I 403
- J 403
- K 403
- L 403
- M 405
- N 406
- O 407
- P 407
- Q 409
- R 409
- S 409
- T 412
- U 413
- V 414
- W 414
- Y 415
- Map 1. The Great Fairs of Medieval England 23
- Map 2. Provenance of St. Ives Fairgoers 93
- Map 3. Reconstruction of Thirteenth-Century St. Ives 243
