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Emperor Conrad, Charter for Donauwörth, 10301 written with our own hand, we have ordered it to be inscribed with the Conrad was the Holy Roman Emperor over what is now Germany. A impression of our seal. Seal of Conrad, most invincible and august charter is a legal document intended to record a legal transaction (other Emperor of the Romans. Udalric, chancellor, revised this in the place of charters record the sale of land, etc.). Archbishop Aribo. Given on the Kalends of February in the year of the In the name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Conrad by the grace Incarnation of our Lord 1030, and also in the year of Lord Conrad, the of God, Emperor Augustus of the Romans. Be it known to all those sixth of his kingdom but the third of his empire. Given most happily at faithful to God and to us . we confirm and corroborate to the said Dortmund. faithful Manigold the power and freedom of holding a market with money rights, thelony2, and with all public business in the said place King Louis VII, Charter of Lorris, France, 11553 Donauworth, situated in the district of Ries belonging to Count Frederick, 1. Every one who has a house in the parish of Lorris shall pay as cens but especially of doing business every Saturday just as it was granted to sixpence only for his house, and for each acre of land that he possesses in his father by our ancestor. Moreover, mindful of the faithful and devoted the parish. service of the said Manigold, we have also granted to him (Manigold) an 2. No inhabitant of the parish of Lorris shall be required to pay a toll annual fair for three continuous days, i.e., to be held on the Kalends of or any other tax on his provisions; and let him not be made to pay May and on the next two days in the said place, commanding firmly by measurage fee on the grain which he has raised by his own labor. imperial power that all men seeking that fair, going and coming for 3. No burgher shall go on an expedition, on foot or on horseback, business, shall always have peace. But if any one trouble any of these from which he cannot return the same day to his home if he desires. men, or, causing trouble, disturb the fair itself, let it be known he will pay 4. No burgher shall pay toll on the road to Etampes, to Orleans, to such ban as he would have paid if he had molested the fair of Ratisbon or Milly (which is in the Gatinais), or to Melun. Augsburg. And that this may be more readily believed and diligently 5. No one who has property in the parish of Lorris shall forfeit it for observed through the future course of years, corroborating this charter any offense whatsoever, unless the offense shall have been committed against us or any of our hotes. 1 Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval Economic History, (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936), pp. 118-119. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1030Donworth-market.asp Original language text in H. Gengler, Codex Juris Municipalis Germaniae, (Erlangen: F. Enke, 1867), p. 806. 2 thelony is an archaic term for a toll or fee on trade goods. Modern “tolls” 3 From Frederic Austin Ogg, ed., A Source Book of Medieval History, (New refer to a fee based on transportation, but medieval tolls could be based on York: 1907), 328-330. Internet Medieval Sourcebook, transportation, sale, or other parameters. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lorris.html 1 6. No person while on his way to the fairs and markets of Lorris, or Shearers Guild Charter, Arras, 12364 returning, shall be arrested or disturbed, unless he shall have committed Here is the Shearers' Charter, on which they were first founded. This an offense on the same day. is the first ordinance of the shearers, who were founded in the name of the 9. No one, neither we nor any other, shall exact from the burghers of Fraternity of God and St. Julien, with the agreement and consent of those Lorris any tallage, tax, or subsidy. who were at the time mayor and aldermen. 12. If a man shall have had a quarrel with another, but without 1. Whoever would engage in the trade of a shearer shall be in the breaking into a fortified house, and if the parties shall have reached an Confraternity of St. Julien, and shall pay all the dues, and observe the agreement without bringing a suit before the provost, no fine shall be due decrees made by the brethren. to us or our provost on account of the affair. 2. That is to say: first, that whoever is a master shearer shall pay 14 15. No inhabitant of Lorris is to render us the obligation of corvee, solidi to the Fraternity. And there may not be more than one master except twice a year, when our wine is to be carried to Orleans, and not shearer working in a house. And he shall be a master shearer all the year, elsewhere. and have arms for the need of the town. 16. No one shall be detained in prison if he can furnish surety that he 3. And a journeyman shall pay 5 solidi to the Fraternity. will present himself for judgment. 4. And whoever wishes to learn the trade shall be the son of a burgess 17. Any burgher who wishes to sell his property shall have the or he shall live in the town for a year and a day; and he shall serve three privilege of doing so; and, having received the price of the sale, he shall years to learn this trade. have the right to go from the town freely and without molestation, if he so 5. And he shall give to his master 3 muids for his bed and board; and desires, unless he has committed some offense in it. he ought to bring the first muid to his master at the beginning of his 18. Any one who shall dwell a year and a day in the parish of Lorris, apprenticeship, and another muid a year from that day, and a third muid at without any claim having pursued him there, and without having refused the beginning of the third year. to lay his case before us or our provost, shall abide there freely and 6. And no one may be a master of this trade of shearer if he has not without molestation. lived a year and a day in the town, in order that it may be known whether 35. We ordain that every time there shall be a change of provosts in or not he comes from a good place…. the town the new provost shall take an oath faithfully to observe these regulations; and the same thing shall be done by new sergeants every time 4 Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval Economic that they are installed. History, (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936; reprint ed., New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1965), pp. 249-252. From Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1236Weavers5.asp 2 8. And if masters, or journeymen, or apprentices, stay in the town to 18. And after the half year the mayor and aldermen shall fix such do their work they owe 40 solidi, if they have done this without the wages as he ought to have. permission of the aldermen of Arras. 19. And whatever journeyman shall carry off from his master, or from 9. And whoever does work on Saturday afternoon, or on the Eve of his fellow man, or from a burgess of the town, anything for which the Feast of Our Lady, or after Vespers on the Eve of the Feast of St. complaint is made, shall pay 5 solidi. Julien, and completes the day by working, shall pay, if he be a master, I2 20. And whoever maligns the mayor and aldermen, that is while on denarii, and if he be a journeyman, 6 denarii. And whoever works in the the business of the Fraternity, shall pay 5 solidi… four days of Christmas, or in the eight days of Easter, or in the eight days 22. And no one who is not a shearer may be a master, in order that the of Pentecost, owes 5 solidi… work may be done in the best way, and no draper5 may cut cloth in his 11. And an apprentice owes to the Fraternity for his apprenticeship 5 house, if it be not his own work, except he be a shearer, because drapers solidi. cannot be masters. 12. And whoever puts the cloth of another in pledge shall pay 10 23. And if a draper or a merchant has work to do in his house, he may solidi to the Fraternity, and he shall not work at the trade for a year and a take such workmen as he wishes into his house, so long as the work be day. done in his house. And he who infringes this shall give 5 solidi to the 13. And whoever does work in defiance of the mayor and aldermen Fraternity… shall pay 5 solidi. 25. And each master ought to have his arms when he is summoned. 14. And if a master flee outside the town with another's cloth and a And if he has not he should pay 20 solidi.