CAISTOR (OS Grid Reference: 5117 4013).
Recorded as a Borough 1197–8 (English Medieval Boroughs by M
Beresford & HRP Finberg, p. 136).
Recorded as a Royal Mint during the
period 970 to 1042.
Assessed value of lay subsidy in 1334 was £39.08.
Roman Borough or burgus.
A seventh century coin found near Caistor
suggests that it was then a site of trade (P. Sawyer, ‘Anglo-Saxon
Lincolnshire’, History of Lincolnshire p.170)
Caistor was an urban settlement from the tenth century. Appears to have
declined in the late medieval period, possibly as a result of the rise in
importance of Louth, Lincolnshire (G. Platts, Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire, p.
224).
Classified as a market town around 1600 (Everitt, p.
474).
A Prescriptive Market: a Borough and mint as recorded in 1179
(forum).
The Sheriff of Lincolnshire accounted for the market and it’s income.
(Pipe Rolls, 25th year of the reign of Henry II, p. 43).
The market and its income was recorded in 1187, 1191–4, 1196–8,
1200–1203, 1205, 1207, 1209–12, 1214, 1218 and 1220–1 as
recorded in the Pipe Rolls (The Great Roll of the Pipe) in the form : PR, year
of reign, King and page number.
(PR, 30 Henry II, p. 14; PR, 32 Henry III, p. 70; PR, 33 Henry II, p.
68; PR, 34 Henry II, p. 67; PR, 3 Richard I, p. 2; PR, 4 Richard I, p. 232; PR,
5 Richard I, p. 38; PR, 6 Richard I, p. 103; Chancellor’s Roll, 8 Richard
I, p. 231; PR, 9 Richard I, pp. 95, 114; PR, 10 Richard I, p. 45; PR, 2 John, p.
65; PR, 3 John, p. 3; PR, 4 John, p. 218; PR, 5 John, p. 106; PR, 7 John, p.
198; PR, 9 John, p. 16; PR, 11 John, p. 67; PR, 12 John, p. 17; PR, 13 John, p.
70; PR, 14 John, p. 103; PR, 16 John, p. 146; PR, 2 Henry III, p. 94; PR, 4
Henry III, p. 88; PR, 5 Henry III, p. 145).
On 27 Apr 1251, the Sheriff of Lincolnshire was ordered to restore the
market to the men of Caistor, as it had been taken into the king’s hands
(Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, 1247–51, p.
435).