Monument record 2416/2/5 - Horse Market

{1}The Horsemarket as recorded in 1565 had previously been a part of the manor garden, and hence was a relatively late creation. This may well reflect a growing importance of horses and stock in general in the sales of the market compared to the declining importance of wool. However horses had of course been offered for sale at the market in the medieval period, as can be seen from the case of the bailiff of the Duke of Gloucester of Rothwell who distrained the horses of the lord of Clyffe going towards Oundle market.

The plot is recorded in 1565 as immediately to the south of the vicarage a tenement held by Copy of the Court Roll by Robert Moreton, called the 'Horse Market' but by then just a strip of land now used as a yard with a garden at the east end' and held for 2/4d per annum. This may well be the other parcel of manor graden held in 1400 by Robert Lymbergh.

<1> Foard G.; Ballinger J.;, 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle, Section 3.5.1.4 Horse Market (unchecked) (Report). SNN102637.

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