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Royal Charter of 1259 - English Text
Henry, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine, to the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Justices, Sheriffs, Reeves, Ministers and all his Bailiffs and faithful people - greeting. Know ye that we, at the instance of our brother, the illustrious lord King of Germany, of our special grace have granted and, by this our charter, confirmed for us and our heirs, that his town of Camelford in Cornwall, which the same King by his charter recently made a free Borough with a market every week on Friday and with a fair every year lasting for three days, that is to say on the vigil and on the day and on the morrow of the Translation of Saint Swithun, shall remain a free Borough with the foresaid market and fair and all the liberties and free customs of this kind, a Borough market and fair appertaining forever. These being witnesses: Richard of Clare, earl of Gloucester & Hereford, Roger le Bygod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, Hugh le Bygod, Justice of England, Philip Basset, John Maunsell, Treasurer of York, Walter of Merton, Gilbert of Preston, Imbert Pugeys and others. Given by our hand at Westminster, the twelfth day of June in the fortyfourth year of our reign.
