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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
The following translations were made by Peter May from original charter rolls in The National Archives.
Grant by Henry III to Richard de Argentein for a View of Frankpledge in the court of the manor of Newmarket and also a market every Tuesday at the manor of Halesworth and a three-day fair at the feast of St Simon and St Jude (28 October) annually at the manor of Newmarket, made 17 February 1226/27. TNA, Charter Roll (Chancery), 11 Henry III, Part 1, m.26.
Richard de Argentein.
Henry the King etc. greeting. Know ye that we have granted and by this our present charter confirmed to our beloved and faithful Richard de Argentein and to his heirs that the sheriff of Suffolk shall come once every year for ever to his manor of Newmarket to make view of frankpledge in this court of the same town of his men in that manor. We have also granted to the same Richard and to his heirs the amercements of the aforesaid view of frankpledge if any befall, so that the aforesaid sheriff of Suffolk take or have nought of those amercements. We have also granted to the same Richard and to his heirs for ever that they may have a market every week on Tuesday at his manor of Halesworth, and that he may have every year at his aforesaid manor of New Market a fair lasting for three days, to wit on the Eve of the Apostles Simon and Jude and on the day and on the morrow, with all the liberties and free customs to such markets and fairs appertaining so that the aforesaid market and the aforesaid fair be not to the hurt of the neighbouring markets and fairs.
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