Nottinghamia vetus et nova. Or an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham / Gather'd from the remains of antiquity and collected from authentic manuscripts and ancient as well as modern historians. Adorn'd with beautiful copper-plates; with an appendix, containing besides extracts of wills and deeds relating to charities, diverse other curious papers. By Charles Deering, M.D.

George Charles Deering

Date:: 1751

Credit: Nottinghamia vetus et nova. Or an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham / Gather'd from the remains of antiquity and collected from authentic manuscripts and ancient as well as modern historians. Adorn'd with beautiful copper-plates; with an appendix, containing besides extracts of wills and deeds relating to charities, diverse other curious papers. By Charles Deering, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$S E C T. L f .Change, Gardiners who are mightily encreafed hnce the Tear 170^, have ^ Row of Stalls beyond the Malt-Crofs. BESIDES the Malt-Crofs, there are two others the Hen-Crcfs and the Week^ day-Crcfs, The hrft Hands Eaft of Timber Hill, and almoft in the Center between four Streets which here meet 5 it is a fair Column Handing on an hevanp^ular Balls fout Steps high, this is the Poultry Market as may be gathered from its Name 5 hither on Saturdays the Country People brings, all forts of Fowl both tame and wild, a^ Geefe, Turkeys, Ducks, Pidgeons, &c. alfo Pigs. The Week-day-Crofs is likewife a Co¬ lumn Handing on an o«Hangular Balls larger than the former, with four Steps placed almoH in the midH of an open fpace between the High and Middle-pavement ^ \\^x^ the Wednefday and Friday Market is kept, for Butter, Egg*?, Pidgeons, wild Fowl, and all kind of Fruit in Seafon ; belldes on Fridays here are fold. Sea and River Filh. Near this Crofs Hand other Shambles placed North and South, where ail the Week except on Saturdays, the Butchers fell all kinds of Fle/h-meat.. Over and above all thefe Markets, a Monday Market was lately endeavoured to be eHablilhed, on a Piece ofWaHe Ground between the WeH End eterlsQlemtM- yard, Wkeelergate and Heundgate, which attempt tho’ it did not anfwer the End, be- -caufe the Country People would not take to it, yet has proved an Advantage to the Town, for this Place which is in the Heart of the Town was a meet Sink: before, and dangerous to pafs efpecially in the Night, is now made good and as well paved as any othet oi Nottinghanithe Crofs, with a Roof fupported by four Pillars is now walled in, and proves a very convenient Receptacle for the Town’s Fire Engines, and on Saturdays it is the Sheep Market, the Folds, which formerly were placed in the Great Market Place being now removed to this, they Hand along the WeHand North 5ides ofT/^. ^eUr's Church-yard and at the EaH End of Houndgate. On the South fide of the TVeek-day-Crofs is the ancient Town Hall, Handing upon part of the Old Wall, call’d Mont-Hall, probably becaufe it is Htuated on the Top of the Hill which leads up to the Week-day-Crofs, it has given the Lane going clofe by it down be¬ tween the two Marlhes the Name of and the Hreet oppoHte to it, that of Mont-Hall-gate., now caiW^dL^lovc-hladder Hreet. This Hall was very lately a low Wooden Building wearing the Badge of Antiquity, the HrH Room, and which was anciently all the Hall, is fpacious 5 in it ufed to be held the AHizes and SeHions for ^he Town, as has been juH now mentioned, over the Seat where the Judge in the Cir¬ cuit and the Mayor at other Times ufed to fit, are the King’s Arms handfomely paint¬ ed, on each Side of it are hung up the Arms oF nine of the Benefaflors to this Town, with inferiptions under them, (of which more inT(f(T*VII.)VVithin thisCourt therein: an handfomeWainfeottedChamber calledtheCcizm^'//i'yc/y?(which anciently did not belong to the Hall) where the Mayor and his Brethren with the reHofthe fvlembers of the Corporation tranfad: the Bufinefsof the Town, and here the Records andall otherWri- tings of the Town are kept, under three Locks and Key';, of which the Mayor for the Time being has one, the youngeH Alderman not being Mayor, the fecond, and the fenior Coroner the third. In this Hall the BurgeHes are chofen who are roreprefent this Town in Parliament. Under it is a Prifon, both for Debtors above and for Felons ■under Ground. This feems to me to be the old Prifon of which mention is made in the Charter of Confirmation of King Hd-ivardlW. which recites an Inquiiition taken and retained in Chancery, whereby it wa^ found, “ That the BurgeiTes Time out of Mind, unto the Time of King John s Charter and fince, had a Goal in the Town for the CuHody of fuch as were taken therein as belonging to the Town.” It could therefore not be that which King John built about the third Year of his Reign, as ]>r.. Mhorcton feems to doubt. This Prifon was lately in very bad Order, efpe-cially C$

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