[1] [2] This yeare, the king caused a faire to be kept at Westminster at saint Edwards tide,S. Edwards faire at West|minster. to indure for fiftéene daies, and to the end that the same should be the more haunted with all manner of people, he com|manded by proclamation, that all other faires, as Elie, and such like holden in that season, should not be kept, nor that any wares should be shewed within the citie of London, either in shop or without, but that such as would sell, should come for that time vn|to Westminster: which was doone, not without great trouble and paines to the citizens, which had not roome there, but in booths and tents, to their great disquieting and disease, for want of necessarie prouision, being turmoiled too pitifullie in mire and dirt, through occasion of raine that fell in that vnsea|sonable time of the yeare. The bishop of Elie com|plained sore of the wrong doone to him by suspending his faire at Elie aforesaid.