Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ss by order of the Parliament in1646. The year after the erection of the Castle (1278), Edward madea grant of a Market and Fair to the Town of Flint, which wasdated at Dover on the fourth of February. It will be found at theRecord Office on the Welsh Roll of 6 Edward I., memb. xi. Thefollowing is a translation of it:— The King to his beloved and faithful Gunecelm de Badelesmere, hisjusticiary of Chester, and Howell ap Griffin, his Bailiff of Hundreds, We will that the
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ss by order of the Parliament in1646. The year after the erection of the Castle (1278), Edward madea grant of a Market and Fair to the Town of Flint, which wasdated at Dover on the fourth of February. It will be found at theRecord Office on the Welsh Roll of 6 Edward I., memb. xi. Thefollowing is a translation of it:— The King to his beloved and faithful Gunecelm de Badelesmere, hisjusticiary of Chester, and Howell ap Griffin, his Bailiff of Hundreds, We will that there be a certain Market at our town of Flint, onThursday in every week, and one Fair there every year to last for nine days,namely :—on the Eve, the Day, and the Morrow of Pentecost, and for the sixdays following, with all liberties and free customs to such Market and Pairappertaining,—Therefore We command you that you cause the aforesaid Marketand Fair to be publicly proclaimed throughout the whole of your Bailiwickand to be firmly held. Witness as above [ at Dover on the fourth day ofFebruary.]. FLINT CASTLE.—VIEW OF THE EASTERN TOWER, FROM THE COURTYARD, WITH PARKGATE,ON THE WIRRAL COAST, IN THE DISTANCE. FLINT CASTLE BUILT AND THE TOWN FOUNDED. 29 An order was issued in 1280 for the custody of the gate, whenprobably the Castle was first garrisoned and the Constable wasappointed at an annual salary of ;^io, the amount now paid to thepresent Constable. In 1281 the men of Flint, amongst other grievances, complained that the King builded the Castell on their soil, by which meansthe noblest and best of the countrie be injured, and although theJustices had received the Royal Mandate to grant them remunera-tion of ground, equal in goodness and quality, they did not receivein lieu neither land nor monie. Edward and Llewelyn about this time effected a treaty of peace,by which nearly the whole of the present counties of Flint andDenbigh were surrendered to the English : an
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