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Sunday Fairs Act 1448

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Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 27 Hen. 6 and Anno Dom. 1448 Certain Days wherein Fairs and Markets ought not to be kept.

(27 Hen. 6) C A P. V.

‘ITEM, Considering the abominable Injuries and Offences done to Almighty God, and to his Saints, always Aiders and singular Assisters in our Necessities because of Fairs and Makers upon their high and principal Feasts, as in the Feast of theAscension of our Lord, in the Day of Corpus Christi , in the Day of Whitsunday, in Trinity-Sunday , with other Sundays, and also in the high Feast of the Assumption of our Blessd Lady, the Day of All-Saints , and on Good-Friday , accustomably and miserably holden and used in the Realm of England; in which principal and festival Days, for great earthly Covetise, the People is more willingly vexed, and in bodily Labour foiled, than in other ferial Days, as in fastening and making their Booths and Stalls, bearing and carrying, listing and placing their Wares outward and homeward, as though they did nothing remember the horrible defiling of their Souls in buying and selling, with many deceitful Lyes, and false Perjury, with Drunkenness and Strifes, and so specially withdrawing themselves and their Servants from divine Service;’ '(2) the foresaid Lord the King, by the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons of this Realm of England, being in the said Parliament, and by Authority of the same Parliament, hath ordained, That all Manner of Fairs and Marketsin the said principal Feasts andSundays, and Good-Friday , shall clearly cease from all shewing of any Goods or Merchandises (necessary Victual only except) upon Pain of Forfeiture of all the Goods aforesaid, so shewed, to the Lord of the Franchise or Liberty where such Goods, contrary to this Ordinance, be or shall be shewed (the Four Sundays in Harvest except.) (3) Nevertheless, of his special Grace, by Authority aforesaid, granteth to them Power, which of old Time had no Day to hold their Fair or Market but only upon the Festival Days aforesaid, to hold by...

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