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