TOLLS AND CUSTOMS | |
Subject: | Tolls collected at the Winchester gates |
Original source: | Winchester College archives, custumal of Winchester |
Transcription in: | J. S. Furley, City Government of Winchester from the Records of the XIV & XV Centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923, pp.173-74. |
Original language: | French |
Location: | Winchester |
Date: | ca. 1270s |
TRANSLATION
It is at the gates of Winchester, where the town bailiffs levy customs from those outside of the franchise from whom it is due, that each cart carrying grain for sale owes a halfpenny as custom each time that it comes; and a farthing for a horseload. Each cart carrying iron or steel, 2d.; and 1d. for a horseload. Each cart carrying new seats for carts, harnesses, reins or traces owes 2d. as custom; and 1d. for a horseload. Each cart loaded with millstones, 4d.; and each cart carrying grindstones, 2d. Each cart carrying tin or lead for sale, 4d.; and 2d. for a horseload. Each cart carrying archil for dyeing wool, 2d.; and 1d. for a horseload. 1d. custom is due for sickles and scythes coming by cart, and a halfpenny for a horseload. Each cart carrying tanned hides for sale owes 2d.; and 1d. for a horseload. For madder coming by cart for sale, 2d.; and 1d. for a horseload. Each cart carrying woad for sale, 4d.; and 1d. [sic] for a horseload. Each country-dweller who brings into the city ashes which are applied with woad owes 6d. a year to the king's custom, and 1d. to the clerk for enrolling his name, unless he comes only once a year. It is customary for the dyer's gild of the city to elect by common agreement two reputable and reliable men to be sworn to assess [the value of] the woad brought by outsider merchants for sale in the town, and reliably perform the assessment for [purposes of] selling and buying. Each tanner who has a stall in the high street of Winchester owes 2s. per year for [the part of] the road that he occupies, and 1d. to the clerk by way of tangable. Each woman selling suet or lard by retail owes 1d. on the eve of Easter [Monday?], by way of smergable. Each shoemaker who makes shoes from new cowhide owes the town 2d. by way of scogable. These usages apply to those who are of the franchise as well as to others. |
Created: August 18, 2001. Last update: March 22, 2016 | © Stephen Alsford, 2001-2016 |