5. f2014 tudor institutions
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Local economy and governance in Early Tudor England. The importance of markets in the boroughs and manors in the country.TRANSCRIPT
Tudor Institutions
St. Ives
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
And every wife had seven sacks
And every sack had seven cats
And every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?
Why were they going to St. Ives?
Market Towns
• About 800 known• Fixed market days• Vendors and merchants from out of town• Increasing supply of products• Similar merchants clustered in an area• Source of revenue• Piepowder courts
Shops
• Manufactured goods require more than market stall
• Within medieval town houses of merchants• Sometimes restricted• Purpose built hall – moot hall; booth hall;
gildhall
Decline of fairs
Wool trade• Middlemen purchase from producers• Warehouses• Supply to exportersFood products• Obtained by contract
Regional Marketplaces
• Trade• Pageants• Punishment – stocks, pillory
Norwich Market Cross, 1502
Fish Market, Netherlands Joachim Beuckelaer (1534-1574)
Shrewsbury
Lavenham, Guildhall
Tudor Shops, Lavenham
Goldsmiths, London, 1547 (coronation procession)
Cheapside Cross
Upcoming developments
• Malls – exchanges• Granting of patents or monopolies• Licensing of peddlers
Urban concerns
• Beggars• Crime• Water supply
Manors
• Under authority of a lord who might have multiple manors
• Demesne land around manor house• Strips of tenant and freehold land– Freehold – ability to sell and bequeath– “Custom of the manor” – leased for fixed term
Manors
• Shared grazing land• Bylaws made for the "common profit and with
the assent of all." • Manor courts for dealing with crime,
migration, retailing, common lands, and infrastructure.
Laxton Manor plan