Dispute between Penzance and Marazion over markets.
1604, June 8. Decree of Court.
Refers to the intransigence of the inhabitants of Penzance in ignoring former injunctions not to keep markets to the prejudice of Marazion. The Court, willing to favour Penzance in view of the losses it sustained by the late occupation and spoliation of the town by Spaniards, referred the matter to the Attorney and Solicitor General. The latter had listened to the arguments advanced by both parties, and had concluded that the former verdicts should not be rescinded. But with the consent of both towns they have recommended that any butcher of Penzance may sell flesh victuals to be spent within the said town and not otherwise, and that the inhabitants are not to keep a market on Saturdays. This is now made a decree of the Court.—Veneris octavo die Junii, 2 Jac.
Thomas Clarke to Lord Cecil.
Source: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol23/pp155-161