December 1444
Carts that transport malodorous and other vile materials through the 
streets of the town may do so only twice a week, that is on Wednesdays 
and Saturdays.  Anyone who dumps such materials at the Muckhill, or in 
the watercourses or ditches shall pay [a fine of] 1d. for 
each "treyefull", 2d. for every "soo" and 4d. for every "grete lepe", 
and shall forfeit the treye, soo or grete lepe.  Butchers shall obey the 
same in transporting animal entrails in enclosed carts or barrows to the 
river at flood, half-ebb, or half-flood.
[Since entrails are separately mentioned, the materials 
initially referred to were probably primarily dung and manure, perhaps 
including human refuse.  An ordinance made early the following year 
specified a quarterly fee payable per household to carters who were 
presumably collecting such refuse.  It is not evident where this 
offensive material could be dumped, if not at the Muckhill.  I am not 
certain what were the measures mentioned, although a "leap" is a name 
which occurs throughout the late Middle Ages as a container for a dry 
measure, and a "treye" was a tray which (in some circumstances) held 
about 6 lb. avoirdupois and may have resembled the v-shaped container 
used for carrying mortar, although the term could also be used for a 
sled.]