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A fact from Assize of Bread and Ale appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Britain's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale (1266), were enforced for six centuries?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

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Date of repeal edit

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

According to the Chronological table of the Statutes (HMSO) this statute was also repealed by the Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872. James500 (talk) 20:21, 23 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sources for article expansion edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

These were listed under "References" but were completely unused by the article. Kindly reïnclude them after they have found use as specific inline citations:

Bennett, Judith M, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-512650-5; ISBN 978-0-19-512650-1
Davis, James, Baking for the common good: a reassessment of the assize of bread in Medieval England, The Economic History Review, Vol. 57, Issue 3, Pages 465 - 502, 2004.

— $Llywelyn II$ 08:00, 23 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Expansion, Full Cites edit

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I added full citations and switched to sfn, because it makes it easier for me to cite different pages in the same source. I am also planning to remove some of the technical language of the laws from the article and place them in a notes section that is separate from the references, as I think the language is extremely technical and makes the article difficult to read. I think footnotes would be better for this. I have several secondary sources addressing the significance of these laws in medieval society, and I will expand with content from those. Seraphim System (talk) 20:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

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