re known from a confirmation of 1247,
granting that they and all who should come to the market of Campedene
should be quit of toll, and that if any free burgess of Campedene should
come into the lord's amerciament he should be quit for 12d. unless he
should shed blood or do felony. Probably Earl Ralph also granted the
town a portman-mote, for the account of a skirmish in 1273 between the
men of the town and the county mentions a bailiff and implies the
existence of some sort of municipal government. In 1605 Campedene was
incorporated, but it never returned representatives to parliament.
Camden speaks of the town as a market famous for stockings, a relic of
that medieval importance as a mart for wool that had given the town the
name of Chipping.

CHIPPING NORTON, a market town and municipal borough in the Banbury
parliamentary division of Oxfordshire, England, 26 m. N.W. of Oxford by
a branch of the Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 3780. It lies on the
steep flank of a hill, and consists mainly of one very wide street. The
church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on the lower part of the slope,
is a fine building of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, the
hexagonal porch and the clerestory being good examples of the later
style. The town has woollen and glove factories, breweries and an
agricultural trade. It is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12
councillors. Area, 2456 acres. Chipping Norton (_Chepyngnorton_) was
probably of some importance in Saxon times. At the Domesday Survey it
was held in chief by Ernulf de Hesding; it was assessed at fifteen
hides, and comprised three mills. It returned two members to parliament
as a borough in 1302 and 1304-1305, but was not represented after this
date, and was not considered to be a borough in 1316. The first and only
charter of incorporation was granted by James I., in 1608; it
established a common council consisting of 2 bailiffs and 12 burgesses;
a common clerk, 2 justices of the peace, and 2 serjeants-at-mace; and a
court of record every Monday. In 1205 William Fitz-Alan was granted a
four days' fair at the feast of the Invention of the Cross; and in 1276
Roger, earl of March, was granted a four days' fair at the feast of St
Barnabas. In the reign of Henry VI. the market was held on Wednesday,
and a fair was held at the Translation of St Thomas Becket. These
continued to be held in the reign of James I., who annulled the former
two fairs, and granted fairs at