| Date |
Event Related to Towcester |
| 1200 |
Sheriff rendered account of 40s to the "Leprous Brethren of Toucestr" (Baker p.320) |
| 1220 |
First reference to a market at Towcester. |
| 1254 |
Rectory rated at 40 marks (Baker p.324) |
| 1275 |
Market in Towcester by this date but authority not known.(Baker p.321) |
| 1287 |
Tenants of the Priory of Bradenstoke in Wiltshire were found to be unjustifiably made to bake in the Lord's oven by his bailiff. When part of the abbey of Wandregisile they baked at the abbot's oven when it was in order. (Baker p.317) |
| c.1280 |
Benedict Caetani (also known as Gaetano) was Rector of St. Lawrence's. later elected Pope Boniface VIII at Naples on 23rd January 1295. |
| pre 1290 |
A building in Towcester which passed to John Wodehall had a cellar, loft, chamber, stable and brewery. (FH calendar) |
| 1292 |
Building in Towcester recorded as being a tenement with "toft, croft, garden ditch and quick hedges". (FH calendar) |
| 1295/6 |
The boundary of a building extended from Watling St to a water course.(FH calendar). [This may indicate the mill leat, but could also have been a drainage ditch.] |
