Westoning Market and Fair

Inge family coat of arms
William Inge was granted a market and fair in his Manor of Weston Tregoz and Westoning| in 1303. At that date he owned two thirds of the manor, buying the final third from Juliana de Weylondon in 1308. The market was held on a Monday and a fair was held annually for three days at the Feast of Saint Thomas the Martyr (29th December). Perhaps this saint's day was chosen because, less than a hundred years before, a local man, Eilward of Westoning|, was believed to have undergone a miraculous cure at the hands of the martyred Thomas Becket.
Isolda, widow of William Inge was called upon to substantiate her claim to the rights to hold a market and fair in 1331. When Daniel and Samuel Lysons published the Bedfordshire section of their Magna Britannia in 1806 both the market and fair had fallen into abeyance.