For Simon Marcini:
The Bishop of Chester could certainly have engaged in salt trading along the
River Trent - on what period does your interest focus? Susan Kelly, "Trading
privileges from eighth-century England," Early Medieval Europe, I (1992),
3-28, analyses pre-Conquest trading by English religious houses & episcopal
sees as revealed by surviving toll-privileges.
Aline Hornaday
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