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MARKETS

Catalogue reference: BCC/F/M

What’s it about?

This record is about the MARKETS.

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Reference

BCC/F/M

Title

MARKETS

Description

The following are financial records relating to the administration by the Council of the markets within the city.

There is an introduction to each market at the beginning of each market list.

The records include (Market Day on )the Back,

Butchers Market and Exchange Market,

Cheese Market,

Corn Market,

Fish Market,

Hay, Straw and Coal Market,

Oyster Market,

St James Market,

St Philip's Vegetable Market,

Welsh Market and

Miscellaneous market records.

Held by
Bristol Archives
Language

English

Administrative / biographical background

The markets owned by the Corporation with the exception of the cattle market were common law markets. Bristol was a royal manor and in 1227 a lease of the fee farm of Bristol including the markets was granted to the Corporation by the Crown. The lease was renewed from time to time until 1462, when a grant of the fee farm was made "for ever". Few records of the markets have survived.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/dbcaba52-a0cc-41dc-b50e-063c78d2695c/

Catalogue hierarchy

104,319 records

This record is held at Bristol Archives

21,558 records

Within the fonds: BCC

RECORDS OF CORPORATION OF BRISTOL

8,155 records

Within the sub-fonds: BCC/F

FINANCIAL RECORDS

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MARKETS