. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE the 14th and 1 ;rh centuries,4 but there is no sign of separate borough presentments or of a corporate body. A frequently recurring entry is that of payments ' for whate-silver' from the The gild of St. John the Baptist may have had some share in the government of the town. The Brotherhood House stood in the High Street of Ash well (see under gild). The town was divided into five wards in the 15th century, the name of one ward being ' Dokelake ' Ward, and another High Street The name
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE the 14th and 1 ;rh centuries,4 but there is no sign of separate borough presentments or of a corporate body. A frequently recurring entry is that of payments ' for whate-silver' from the The gild of St. John the Baptist may have had some share in the government of the town. The Brotherhood House stood in the High Street of Ash well (see under gild). The town was divided into five wards in the 15th century, the name of one ward being ' Dokelake ' Ward, and another High Street The name Chepyng Street occurs in the 16th In 1295 the Abbot of Westminster claimed the right to hold a market by virtue of the original grant of the manor by Edward the Confessor,8 and it is probable that the market dates back to that period. The first mention of it is in 1211, when it is recorded that ' the Abbot of Westminster rendered account of 2 palfreys that the market of Ashwell may return to Sunday from Saturday.'8 In 1575 Queen Eliza- beth granted to the Bishop of London the right to hold a market weekly on It had lapsed ââ~z~. beth,ls but afterwards there appears to have been only one fair, which was abolished by law in The High Street of the village runs in a north- easterly direction parallel with Ashwell Street Way. It contains some old houses, notably a cottage for- merly the British Queen Inn, which was originally built in the 15th century, but was much altered in the 17th century. It is a timber-framed house with a thatched roof. On the north side is a stone window partially destroyed and in the kitchen is a moulded oak beam. There are three or four 17th-century houses of red brick or timber and plaster in this street, one bearing the date 1681 and the figure of a dolphin in the plaster. At right angles to it is Mill Street, which runs past St. Mary's Church to the corn mill. This is probably the water mill mentioned in early extents of th
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