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inclusive. The Pie Poudre Court is now incorporated 

 with the " Tolzey Court," which is a tribunal of equal 

 antiquity, being the " most ancient Court of Record by 

 prescription." When the castle of Bristol became a 

 Royal residence, the old court of the Hundred became 

 united to the Palace Court, in which the King's seneschal 

 was assisted by the bailiff. The court was held at the 

 " Tolzey," a place where the King's tolls and duties were 

 collected, and it was called the Court of Tolzey — the word 

 being said to be derived from " toll." In this court all 

 actions of debt, covenant, trespass, and other civil actions 

 arising within the city could be prosecuted by action or 

 by foreign attachment, and its jurisdiction extended to 

 the whole of the county of the city on land, and by water 

 to the Flat and Steep Holmes. 1 



It goes almost without saying that, during the long 

 history of market rights, abuses had crept in and disad- 

 vantages had been developed. Naturally, these were 

 chiefly in connection with the tolls levied by market 

 owners. Toll, it may be mentioned, was not incident to 

 a fair or market without a special grant, though it is 

 probable that all market owners possess the right to levy 

 it. In many cases — if not originally in all as regards 

 produce — the toll was in kind, and this antiquated form 

 of payment still continues in a few instances. Thus, 

 at Berwick, one egg from every thirty is taken ; at 

 Guildford, a pint of corn is taken from every sack ; at 

 Devizes, two quarts of corn are taken from each lot ; and 

 at Penzance, two quarts are taken from every bushel 

 of corn. 



The customs anciently payable in the city of London, 

 according to the Liber Albus, were in many cases tolls 

 in kind. Thus : — 



The cart that brings planks of oak shall give one plank. 

 Every cart that brings leeks in Lent shall pay one penny and 

 one fesselet of leeks. 



1 Two islands in the Bristol Channel. 



