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Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

The right to hold two weekly markets and three yearly fairs, as held ever since, was confirmed in 1657.

Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.