In 1242 Henry III granted a fair at Lacock on the vigil, the feast, and the morrow of the Translation of St. Thomas of Canterbury (7 July) and a Tuesday market,Kenneth H. Rogers, Lacock Abbey Charters, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1979 (= Wiltshire Record Society 34), pp. 15–16. in 1257 at Chitterne a fair on the vigil and feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) and the six days following and a Monday market,Kenneth H. Rogers, Lacock Abbey Charters, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1979 (= Wiltshire Record Society 34), p. 70. and in 1260 a Friday market at Lacock.Kenneth H. Rogers, Lacock Abbey Charters, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1979 (= Wiltshire Record Society 34), p. 16. Along with various wood-gathering rights, the Abbey also received in 1260 from the king 40 acres of Melksham Forest.Kenneth H. Rogers, Lacock Abbey Charters, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1979 (= Wiltshire Record Society 34), p. 16. Various members of the nobility similarly made various grants of lands and of rents in the latter part of the century, even after Ela's death, though no important land was acquired after 1300. Other privileges were countered by obligations and exactions in the mesh of feudal obligations,Kenneth H. Rogers, Lacock Abbey Charters, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1979 (= Wiltshire Record Society 34). though the nuns sometimes managed to contest these at law or to obtain remittance or exemption from the crown.
