Note 334 — Chapter II · MESSENGERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND PEDLARS
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
Statute 2 of 27 Ed. III, A.D. 1353. Canterbury was made a staple town “en l’onur de Saint Thomas,” “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. ii. p. 253, same year. As an example of the changes affecting the staple system, see the statute 2 Ed. III, chap. 9 (A.D. 1328), by which all staples were abolished—for a time.