Not posted.  About 1910.

History:

During 1831, Thomas Newcombe had only been married for one month before he decided to sell his new wife at Romford Market. He paid the customary market fees, twopence for the toll and threepence for the pitch, before conducting a public auction with his wife tied to a post by a new rope. She fetched 5 shillings and sixpence. The rope gained him an additional tanner (6d.).

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