1287 ( and later in the reign of Edward II .1317 ) several women are indicted as common forestallers of geese , fowls , and victuals including fruit , butter , and cheese , buying before the wares are brought into the market , and before the proper hour . Regrating and forestalling were , from the early days of the Gild , offences against the common well .
A Regrator was one who brought up any corn or victuals in a market for the purpose of selling it in the same market at an enhanced price .
A Forestaller was one who brought any victuals on the way to a fair or market to be sold , and made a bargain for them before they were brought into the fair or market .
The fair brought tension between the abbey and the city with a settlement in 1288 , this agreement was drawn up before Reginald de Grey , the Justice , the Prior of Birkenhened , and others .
" The abbot claimed for his convent to hold the fair on St. John Baptist's day , before the Abbey Gate ; not only near the gate in the convent's own booths , but eleswhere in the near the abbey , and that all articles for sale should be exposed there , and nowhere else during the fair . The mayor and the citizens disputed this claim , contending that they were at liberty to sell goods anywhere else in the city during the fair as they pleased . It was agreed that the citizens should have and hold the fairs , and erect booths and stalls ( selde et ementoria ) yearly at fair time , in the place extending from the gate of the cemetery to the houses of the abbot under the cementry wall , and also opposite those booths and elsewhere in the streets as they pleased , saving only the part which lay between the Abbey gate and the Cemetery gate . These stalls were to be erected so as not to interfere with access to the abbey buildings and were to be removed immediately after the end of the fair .
The abbot agreed for the convent that they would not let in the fair which they held in the street near the abbey any of their stalls or booths to any traders of the city as long as the stalls erected by the citizens remained unlet , but they were at liberty to let to foreign traders , and even to the city traders if the booths erected by the citizens were insufficient . The abbot further conceded to the citizens the right of stallage in fair time yearly throughout the city , in return for an annual payment to the abbey of 46s 8d . " ( Morris Chester Tud & Plan p 123 )

1377 - 1399 King Richard II .
Johanna , wife of John de Hilley , and " Margeria , wife of John Torfoot , are common forestallers and "regrators of apples , pears , cheese , butter , fowls , before the first " hour , and sell the goods a second time in retail from the Saturday " after St. John Baptist's day to the Feast of the Purification . " ( Morris Tud & Plan p 396 )
An entry in the presentments of the Jury , 20 Richard II . , throws some light upon the tricks of trade five centuries ago. William de Hergreve and others are declared to be common regrators and forestallers of fresh fish before one o' clock , both inside and outside the city . Their plan was to place the fish thus regrated in their shops and hide them away , putting one only at a time on their table for sale , with the object of getting a higher price .

Edward Prince Of Wales , and Earl of Chester , son of Edward III . and commonly called the Black Prince , did by his charter , directed to the Mayor and citizens , grant the fee farm to the Earl Of Arundell .