Read more: Everything happening over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend in Hull and East YorkshireThe Royal CharterYou don't get more historic than a document written on animal skin with a quill pen made from either a goose or swan using ink made from iron sulphate, gum and fungal growths found on oak trees formed where wasps lay their eggs.
Back in 1299 they were the staple ingredients of a Royal Charter. Hull's first Royal Charter from that year formally confirmed King Edward I's ownership of the town, having previously paid the princely sum £103 to the monks of Meaux Abbey to acquire all their land and property in a settlement known until then as Wyke.
That's just over £4m in today's money. It wasn't an impulse purchase. Instead, Edward saw Hull as a useful addition to his portfolio because of its strategic location as both a trading port and a potential military base.
After modestly changing its name to Kingston upon Hull, he almost immediately embarked on building new roads towards Hessle, Beverley and York, a grid of new streets off High Street and a new quay.
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