Monument record 17/1 - Chipping Warden Market

{1} The source also relates to the initial summary text.
It has been suggested that Henry de Braybroc, like various other lords, set up a market during the king’s minority and it was still held by him after the general prohibition relating to these markets. However, already in 1219 Wischard Ledet owed the king a palfrey for the grant of a weekly market to the manor of Warden.
Brief synopsis of Market history,
1219-20 Tuesday market
1227 fair S. John Lateran
1227 market prohibited
1229 renewed??
1238 Monday market for lifetime of owner (June)
1238 prohibited (July)
Confirmed 1329-30 Tuesday
1334-5 existed
1388-9 still continued
The market was renewed in 1229. In 1226 and 1237 mandates were issued to the sheriff prohibiting the market at Warden as it was injurious to the Bishop of Lincoln’s market at Banbury. However before the expiry in 1237 Gerard de Furnival obtained a regrant of the market. In 1329-30 Sir Thomas Latimer successfully claimed the right to hold a weekly Tuesday market. At the death of Thomas Latymer Bouchard of Braybrooke in 1334-5 the Tuesday market was worth 3/6d per annum. It still continued in 1388-9 when there was a disturbance there by the vicar of Blakesley and action taken against him. There is reference to at least one burgage in the settlement in the mid 15th century, then an inn, but no mention is made of a surviving market in the extents of the 15th century.

<1> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Overview, Appendix 2 (checked) (Report). SNN103118.

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