Randulf of Evesham Randulf of Evesham Randulf of Evesham was a medieval Bishop of Worcester-elect and Abbot of Evesham. Randulf was a monk of Evesham Abbey before becoming Prior of Worcester on 24 December 1204. On 2 December 1213 he was elected to the see of Worcester but his election was quashed by the papal legate for England, Niccolò de Romanis, cardinal bishop of Tusculum, sometime before 20 January 1214 when Randulf was elected Abbot of Evesham. Randulf was elected as abbot on 22 January 1214, and was blessed by the papal legate at St Mary's, York on 10 March 1214. He died
Economics of English towns and trade in the Middle Ages set of taxes that could be raised by the towns, including murage for walls, pavage for streets or pontage, a temporary tax for the repair of bridges. Combined with the "lex mercatoria", which was a set of codes and customary practices governing trading, provided a reasonable basis for the economic governance of the towns. The 12th century also saw a concerted attempt to curtail the remaining rights of unfree peasant workers and to set out their labour rents more explicitly in the form of the English Common Law. This process resulted in the Magna Carta explicitly authorising feudal landowners to