In medieval times, in Chichester, if you wanted to sell goods at the market you had to pay a tax. Some people, however, had so little to sell that if they had paid a tax their profit would have disappeared. These very poor people had permission to sell their products free of charge if they stood under the cross. ~~ Au Moyen-Age, si vous vouliez vendre quelque chose à Chichester, vous deviez vous acquitter d’une taxe. Les plus pauvres, cependant, n’avaient pas les moyens de payer celle-ci. Pour eux une exception était faite à condition qu’ils vendent leurs maigres produits sous la croix.