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"MARKET WEIGHTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."
"WIGHTON, in the parish of Market Weighton, Yorkshire, E.R., 7 m. from Bromley, 146 cm. 181 mm. from London, a small but ancient T. near the r. Foulness, which in Camden's time was well-stocked with husbandmen. Edw. II. granted it a charter for a Fair on the Eve-day and Morrow of St. Mary Magdalen, as did Henry VI. for 2 others, the one upon the Festival of the Invention, the other on that of the Exaltation of the Holy-Cross. Its Mt. which is W. was obtained by Henry de Bromflete, Ld. of the manor in the R, of Henry VI."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]