_Book of the Foundation of the Church of St. Bartholomew, London._ Original Latin version (Cotton MS., Vesp., B. IX., fols. 41-3), written 1174-89. Old English version written about 1400 and edited by Norman Page.
In the greater markets particular places were assigned to the sellers of particular wares.
_Ancient Regulation of Oxford market renewed in 1319._
The sellers of straw, with their horses and carts that bring it, shall stand between East Gate and All Saints' church, in the middle of the king's highway.
The sellers of wood in carts shall stand between Shydyerd Street and the tenement sometime of John Maidstone....
The sellers of timber shall stand between the tenement which is called St. George's Hall and St. Edward's Lane....
The sellers of hogs and pigs shall stand between the churches of St. Mary and All Saints and on the north side of the street.
The ale or beer shall stand between St. Edward's Lane and the tenement sometime of Alice de Lewbury on the south side of the king's highway.
The sellers of earthen pots and coals shall stand between the said lane of St. Edward and the tenement sometime of John Hampton ... and from that place upward.
The sellers of gloves and whittawyers shall stand between All Saints' church and the tenement which was sometime John the Goldsmith's....
The sellers of furs (? monianiorum) and linendrapers and langdrapers shall stand from the tenement which was John the Goldsmith's to the tenement of the abbot of Osney, in the corner, which John Smith sometime inhabited.
The bakers selling bread called Tutesyn shall stand between the shop which Nicholas the Spicer now holdeth and the tenement which John Coyntroyer holdeth.
The foreign[3] sellers of fish and those that are not free or of the Gild shall stand on market days behind the said sellers of bread, towards the middle of the street.
The foreign or country poulterers shall stand between Mauger Hall and the tenement called Somenois Inn....
The sellers of white bread shall stand on each side of Quatervois, from the north head thereof toward the south.
The tanners shall stand between Somenois Inn and Quatervois.
The sellers of cheese, eggs, milk, beans, new peas, and butter, shall stand on Quatervois Corner on each side of the way towards the Bailly.