GAZETTEER OF MARKETS AND FAIRS IN ENGLAND AND WALES TO 1516
Abbreviations
| A | abbot | |
| Abb. Plac. | Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio (London, 1811) | |
| Actes des Henri II | Recueil des Actes de Henri II, 4 vols., ed. L. Delisle and E. Berger (Paris, 1906- 27) | |
| Apr | April | |
| Archbp | archbishop | |
| As | abbess | |
| Aug | August | |
| Ballard and Tait | A. Ballard and J. Tait (eds.), British Borough Charters, 1216- 1307 (Cambridge, 1923) | |
| Beresford | M. Beresford, New Towns of the Middle Ages (London, 1967) | |
| BF | M. Beresford and H.R.P. Finberg, English Medieval Boroughs: a handlist (London, 1973) | |
| Bk of Fees | Liber Feodorum: The Book of Fees commonly called Testa de Nevill (1198-1293), 2 vols (London, 1920-31) | |
| bp | bishop | |
| Bp | bishop | |
| C | convent | |
| C 60/ | Fine Rolls, Public Record Office, Kew | |
| Ca | canons | |
| CAD | Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, 6 vols (London, 1890- 1915) | |
| Cartae Antiquae | Cartae Antiquae, rolls 1- 10, ed. L. Landon (Pipe Rolls Soc. xvii, 1939); rolls 11-20, ed. J. Conway-Davis (Pipe Roll Soc. new series xxxiii, 1960) | |
| CChR | Calendar of Charter Rolls (1226-1516) 6 vols. (London, 1903-27) | |
| CCR | Calendar of Close Rolls (1272-1485), 45 vols. (London, 1892-1954); (1485-1509) 2 vols., ed. R.E. Latham, S.S. Wilson (London, 1955, 1963) | |
| CCW | Calendar of Chancery Warrants (1244-1326) (London, 1927) | |
| CDS | Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland preserved in the Public Record Office (1108-1509) 4 vols., ed. J. Bain (Edinburgh, 1881-8) | |
| ch | church | |
| Challis | C. Challis, A New History of the Royal Mint (Cambridge, 1992) | |
| CIM | Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous preserved in the Public Record Office, 7 vols. (London, 1916- 68) | |
| CIPM | Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogus documents in the Public Record Office, (Henry III-7 Richard II) 15 vols. (London, 1904- 70) | |
| CPR | Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (1232- 1509), 52 vols. (London, 1891- 1916) | |
| CR | Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, (1227-72) 14 vols. (London, 1902-38) | |
| CRR | Curia Regis Rolls of the reigns of Richard I, John and Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office, 16 vols. (London, 1922- 79) | |
| Darby | H.C. Darby, Domesday England (Cambridge, 1977) | |
| Darby and Maxwell | H.C. Darby and I.S. Maxwell eds. The Domesday Geography of Northern England (Cambridge, 1962) | |
| Dec | December | |
| Defence | The Defence of Wessex: the Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon fortifications ed. D. Hill and A.R. Rumble (Manchester, 1996) | |
| dep | dependent (as in Easter dep) | |
| EcHR | Economic History Review | |
| Edw | Edward | |
| Ekwall | E. Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, 4th edition (Oxford, 1980) | |
| Eliz | Elizabeth | |
| Everitt | A. Everitt's list of market towns c.1500- 1640 published in Agrarian History of England and Wales, iv (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 468-75 | |
| Ex | Exaltation | |
| EYC | Early Yorkshire Charters, vols. 1-3, ed. W. Farrer (Edinburgh, 1914-16); vols. 4-10, ed. C.T. Clay (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc. record series, extra series, 1935-55) | |
| f | feast | |
| FA | Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office AD 1284-1431, 6 vols. (London, 1899- 1920) | |
| Feb | February | |
| FF Essex | Feet of Fines for Essex, 3 vols., ed. R.E.G. Kirk and E.F. Kirk (Essex Archaeological Soc., Colchester, 1899-1949) | |
| Fri | Friday | |
| GC | Market or fair granted by charter | |
| GEC | G.E. Cokayne, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, ireland, Great Britain and United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, new edition, revised by V. Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, D. Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden, G.H. White, 12 vols. (London, 1910- 59) | |
| GL | Market or fair granted by letter close | |
| Glasscock | R.E. Glasscock (ed), The Lay Subsidy of 1334, Records of the Social and Economic History, new series, ii (London, 1975) | |
| GO | Market or fair granted by means other than charter, letter close or letter patent | |
| Goodfellow | P. Goodfellow, ‘Medieval markets in Northamptonshire’, Northamptonshire Past and Present, 7 (1987–88) | |
| GP | Market or fair granted by letter patent | |
| gr | granted | |
| Griffiths | R.A. Griffiths ed., Boroughs of Medieval Wales (Cardiff, 1978) | |
| Guide | F.A. Youngs (ed.), Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England (Royal Historical Society, 1991) | |
| Harrison | W. Harrison, The Description of England (Ithaca, N.Y., 1968) | |
| Hen | Henry | |
| Hinton, 'Coins and Commercial Centres' | D.A. Hinton, 'Coins and Commercial Centres in Anglo-Saxon England', in M.A.S. Blackburn (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Monetary History: Essays in Memory of Michael Dolley (Leicester, 1986) | |
| Inv | Invention | |
| Jan | January | |
| Jul | July | |
| Jun | June | |
| K | king | |
| kn | knight | |
| Kowaleski, Local Markets | M. Kowaleski, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Exeter (Cambridge, 1995) | |
| KW | History of the Kings Works: the Middle Ages, R. Allen Brown, H.M. Colvin, A.J. Taylor (London, 1963) | |
| L and P Henry VIII | Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII, 1509-47, vols. 1-4, ed. J.S. Brewer; vols. 5-12, ed. J. Gairdner; vols. 14-21, ed. R.H. Brodie (London, 1862- 1910) | |
| Lee, 'John Leland's Itinerary' | J.S. Lee, 'The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages: evidence from John Leland's Itinerary', Urban History, 37 (2010), 3-25 | |
| Lewis | E.A. Lewis, The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia: a study of the rise and development of the municipal element in the ancient principalities of North Wales down to the Act of Union of 1536 (London, 1912) | |
| M | monks | |
| m | morrow | |
| Mar | March | |
| Masschaele | J. Masschaele, Peasants, Merchants and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350 (New York, 1997) | |
| May | May | |
| Medieval Religious Houses | D. Knowles and R. N. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses of England and Wales (London, 1971) | |
| Midgeley | M. Midgeley (ed.), Ministers' Accounts of the Earldom of Cornwall, 1296-7 (Camden 3rd series, lxvi, 1942-5), vol 1 | |
| Mon | Monday | |
| Monasticon | Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. W. Dugdale, reprinted new edition by J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, 6 vols. (1846) | |
| N | nun or nuns | |
| Nov | November | |
| Oct | October | |
| P | prior | |
| PR | Pipe Rolls (The Great Roll of the Pipe...) given in the form: PR, King and year of reign, page no.' | |
| Ps | prioress | |
| Qu | queen | |
| QW | Placita de Quo Warranto, Edward I-Edward III in Curia Receptae Scaccarii Westm. Asservati, ed. W. Illingworth (London, 1818) | |
| Ransford, Early Charters | R. Ransford ed., Early Charters of the Augustinian Canons of Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1062-1230 (Woodbridge, 1989) | |
| RCh | Rotuli Chartarum (London 1837) | |
| Regesta | Regesta Regum Anglo- Normannorum, vol. 1, ed. H.W.C. Davis ed. (Oxford, 1913); vol. 2, ed. C. Johnson and H.A. Cronne (Oxford, 1956); vols. 3 and 4, ed. H.A. Cronne and R.H.C. Davis (Oxford, 1968) | |
| Regesta 1066-87 | Regesta Regum Anglo- Normannorum The Acta of William I (1066- 87), ed. D. Bates (Oxford, 1998) | |
| RH | Rotuli Hundredorum (London, 1812-18) | |
| Ric | Richard | |
| RLC | Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1204-27) 2 vols. (London, 1833, 1844) | |
| RLP | Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati (1201-16) ed. T.D. Hardy (London, 1835) | |
| Roles Gascons, 1242-54 | Rôles Gascons, 1242-54, tome premier, ed F. Michel (Paris, 1885) | |
| Roles Gascons, 1254-55 | Rôles Gascons, 1254-55, supplément au tome premier, ed. C. Bémont (Paris, 1896) | |
| Rosser | G. Rosser, Medieval Westminster 1200- 1540 (Oxford, 1989) | |
| Rot de Obl et Fin | Rotuli de Oblatis (1, 2, 3, 9 John) et Finibus (6, 7, 15, 17, 18 John) in Turri Londinensi Asservati, ed. T.D. Hardy (London, 1835) | |
| Sat | Saturday | |
| Sawyer, 'Sussex Markets' | F. E. Sawyer, 'Sussex Markets and Fairs', Sussex Archaeological Collections, xxxvi, Lewes (1888) | |
| Sept | September | |
| sh | sheriff | |
| Smith, Vale-Royall | W. Smith, The Vale-Royall of England or the Countie Palatine of Chester Illustrated (London, 1656) [the section on 'market towns' is reprinted in G. Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd edn, rev. T. Helsby, 3 vols (London 1882), vol. 1, pp. 137-9] | |
| Soulsby | I. Soulsby, The Towns of Medieval Wales (Chichester, 1983) | |
| SS | Saints | |
| St | Saint | |
| Steph | Stephen | |
| Sun | Sunday | |
| Thurs | Thursday | |
| Tues | Tuesday | |
| v | vigil | |
| VCH | Victoria County History. The reference is given in form VCH [County], volume, p. | |
| Wed | Wednesday | |
| West Riding Boroughs | M. Beresford, 'Gazetteer of West Riding Boroughs', appended to G.H. Martin, E.A. Danbury, P.J.P. Goldberg, B.J. Barber and M.W. Beresford, Doncaster: A Borough and its Charters (Doncaster, 1994). | |
| Whit | Whitsun | |
| Wil | William | |
| Willis-Bund | J. Willis-Bund ed., An extent of all the lands and rents of the Lord Bishop of St David's; made by Master David Fraunceys, chancellor of St David's, in the time of the venerable father the Lord David Martyn, by the grace of God bishop of the place, in the year of Our Lord 1326 (London, 1902) |
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