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1389 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/245/14) Robertus Shepherde..dedit & concessit..tria mesuagia..ex opposito le Marketplace.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 5101 He goth into the Market place of Rome.

c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1583 Who-so..sette it in a commune market-place.

1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 6 It shall be lawful..in the Market-place to put them in the Pillory all the Market-time.

1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 53 He built a market place for the merchants of both people, to trade and concurre.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vi. 26 Go sound thy Trumpet in the Market place . View more context for this quotation

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 347 This morning in the Markett place..he saw one executed for murder.

1710 Medley No. 12 These the Emperor order'd to be daily beaten and slash'd in the Market-place with cudgels, whips, and scourges.

1757 A. Mitchell Jrnl. 20 June in A. Bisset Mems. & Papers of Sir A. Mitchell (1850) I. ix. 349 The town itself is but poor; there are some tolerable houses in it, and a large square marcat place.

1794 H. Wansey Jrnl. 17 May in Jrnl. Excursion to U.S. (1796) 66 It is a very neat pleasant town, was founded in 1637. It has a large area or market place in the center, one hundred yards square.

1847 Act 10 & 11 Victoria c. 14 §14 After the Market Place or Place for Fairs is opened for public Use.

1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World 350 All social sponges; all satellites of the court; all beggars of the market-place.

1914 A. Bennett Price of Love xiv. 285 The covered market, which, having one entrance in the market-place and another in Wedgwood Street, connects the two thoroughfares.

1979 This England Winter 19/3 Miss Corrie's dim, prim little shop in the market place had survived the competition of walk-round stores and boutiques.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Feb. 38/1 A Canadian major..was crouching in the northeast corner of the marketplace.

1926 World's Work Sept. 486–7 (insert) These pages constitute a Financial Marketplace—a miniature Wall Street or La Salle Street.

1958 J. Barzun in T. Caplow & R. J. McGee Academic Marketplace p. v The observers' point of departure was the current problem of mobility within the academic marketplace.

1976 Times 7 Aug. 12/2 When progressives seem to behave like theological scrap merchants, swopping bits and pieces in the ecumenical marketplace according to their fancy, clucking noises of disapproval are heard from the Vatican.

2000 London Rev. Bks. 2 Mar. 10/1 A brash, noisy entrepreneur of the intellect who pushes his ideas in the conceptual marketplace with all the fervour with which others peddle second-hand Hoovers.

1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 687 (title) Ethnic discrimination in the marketplace.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. b1/5 The car companies had concentrated in their Canadian plants production of the models that happened to be most successful in the marketplace.

1975 Times 10 Apr. 16/1 Pension schemes..tied to the earnings-related inequalities of the market-place.

1990 Punch 13 July 8/2 S Jason has no specific plans for future signs—he just produces them at the whim of market-place fashions.

1994 Independent on Sunday 27 Nov. 23/2 Once more, a group of arty-farties, unable or unwilling to cut it in the marketplace, starts whingeing on about how the taxpayer owes them a living.