What can be learned about Saffron Walden up to 1500 from available evidence?
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What can be learned about Saffron Walden up to 1500 from available evidence? By Amal Alphonse In this essay, I will show why and how Saffron Walden was a planned, rich, religious and important town. We can tell Saffron Walden was important by cross referencing with various sources available to us. In A. C Edwards' "A history of Essex", he shows that Saffron Walden was bigger than many other towns in a map. In fact, Saffron Walden was a corporate borough, which meant that not only was Saffron Walden allowed to have a market, it was also able create laws without any government involvement. We can then infer from that Saffron Walden was very important. In Holinshed's Chronicles, published in 1557, it is written that the saffron of Saffron Walden was the most "excellent" of them all, ultimately meaning that Saffron Walden was important, considering it's saffron is ranked at the top....


