EDWARD I.'S GREAT CHARTER ad. 



1303- 

 freight unto the mariners, besides the olde customes 

 which are due and were woont to bee payd unto us, they 

 will pay unto us and to our heires in the name of a 

 custome two shillings in money, either out of hande, or 

 else within fortie dayes after the sayd wines shall bee 

 brought on land out of the shippes. Item for every 

 sacke of wooll, which the sayd marchants or others in 

 their name shall buy and carie out of the realme, or 

 cause to bee brought and caried out, they will pay forty 

 pence above the old custome of halfe a marke, which 

 was payed heretofore : And for a last of hides to bee 

 caryed out of our realme and dominion halfe a marke 

 above that which heretofore was payed by the olde 

 custome. And likewise for three hundreth Felles with 

 the wooll on them to bee transported out of our realme 

 and dominion fortie pence, above that certaine rate which 

 before was payed by the olde custome : Also two 

 shillings upon every scarlate and every cloth died in 

 graine. Item eighteene pence for every cloth wherein 

 any kind of graine is mingled. Item twelve pence upon 

 every cloth dyed without graine. Item twelve pence 

 upon everie quintall of copper. 



And whereas sundrie of the aforesayd marchants are 

 woont to exercise other marchandises, as of Haver de 

 pois, and other fine wares, as sarcenets, lawnes, cindalles, 

 and silke, and divers other marchandises, and to sell 

 horses and other beastes, corne, and sundrie other things 

 and marchandises, which cannot easily bee reduced unto 

 a certaine custome : the sayd marchants have granted to 

 give unto us, and to our heires of every pound of silver 

 of the estemation and value of these kinde of goods 

 and marchandises, by what name soever they be called, 

 three pence in the pound in the bringing in of these 

 goods into our realme and dominion aforesaid, within 

 twentie dayes after these goods and marchandises shall 

 be brought into our realme and dominion, and shall be 

 there unladen and solde. And likewise three pence upon 

 every pound of silver in the carying out of any such 

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