Shambles Market
Daily open-air market of food, meat and fish stalls beside a medieval butchers' street.
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This guide to Shambles Market in York turns on Margaret Clitherow, a butcher's wife from the street just behind these stalls, and on the spring of fifteen eighty-six when the authorities came to search her house. It moves through Elizabethan England's war on hidden Catholic priests, the butchers' row that gave the Shambles its name, and a courtroom in York. Best heard standing among the meat and fish counters.
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