Ashton Market Charter Greetings, Know that be our special grace we have granted to our beloved and faithful knight John de Assheton that he and his heirs for ever may have in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne in the county of Lancaster two fairs annually, namely one fair on the eve, the feat day, and the morrow of St. Swithen's, and the other fair on the eve, the feast day, and the morrow of St. Martin in the Winter, to be held in the said town forever, and that he and his said h