Know that we have granted to our men of Beer that they have a market at
Beer every week on Wednesday, so that it be not to the injury of
neighbouring markets. And therefore we command you to cause them thus
to have that market.
_Cal. Rot. Lit. Claus._ (Rec. Com.), I. 220.
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.