There were all different kinds of bread.

面包也分为不同的种类
Here's how I can approach this.

下面我说明这一点
In the town of Liege, which is in Wallonia,

在瓦隆尼亚的列日市
that is in what's now eastern Belgium,

如今位于比利时的东部
Liege, famous for its cork among other things,

列日市曾以软木远近闻名
and now part of the rust belt of eastern Belgium,

如今是比利时东部铁锈带中的一员
they had a municipal statute, that is a municipal regulation,

十四世纪时列日市有这样一则章程
from about the fourteenth century.

也就是市政规章制度
The date 1317 sticks in my mind somewhere.

我对年份1317记忆犹新
I must have read that decades ago.

几十年前我一定读过这个章程
It said that on market day

它规定在集市日那天
merchants from other places would not be allowed in to buy grain

来自其他地方的商旅禁止购买粮食