Market Town Charters

Legal grants that authorized fairs, tolls, courts, walls, and regulated trade privileges.

Core metadata

ID: market_town_charters
Era: Medieval
First known date: 1250 (decade)
Region: England and medieval European market jurisdictions
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

None.

Fields

None.

Node sources

Markets and fairs (The National Archives, 2026, official_agency) • Supports: node
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516: Full Introduction (Institute of Historical Research, 2026, review) • Supports: node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 2
Average edge confidence: 72%
Prerequisite sources: 2
expert_inference: 2

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Guilds (guilds)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Guilds provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Guild (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, generic_overview) • Supports: edge
Bills of Exchange & Early Finance (bills_of_exchange_early_finance)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Bills of Exchange & Early Finance is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	The History of Money (American Numismatic Association Money Museum, 2019, museum) • Supports: edge

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