296 A. D. 1066. 



out the king's leave, fhe was fubjed to a fine of 40 fhillings for every 

 man in her : if a fhip came in againft the king's will, fhe, her cargo, and 

 her men, became forfeited to the king and the earl. Ships coming in 

 with the king's permiffion might difpofe of their cargoes, paying at 

 their departure four pennies for every laft. Thofe who brought mar- 

 tin's fkins * were bound, under a penalty of 40 fhillings, to fliow them 

 firfl to an officer, who might buy for the king what he wanted of them. 

 There were feven coiners in this city, who paid £;] to the king and the 

 earl ; and there were twelve judges chofen from the vaflals of the king, 

 the bifhop, and the earl. 



In the burgh of Snotingeham (Nottingham) there were 173 burgefles, 

 and it paid £\ 8. Two coiners paid 40 fhillings. The navigation of 

 the Trent and the FofTe, and the road to Yoi-k, were carefully preferved. 

 The fifhing of the Trent belonged to the burgelfes. 



The burgh of Derby f contained 143 burgefTes. There were 14 

 mills belonging to it. The burgh and the mills paid in all £2^. 



In the city of Eboracum, or Eurvic (Tork), there were fix divifions 

 or wards (' fcyras'), five of which contained 1,418 inhabited houfes, and 

 the archbifhop's divifion contained 189. The burgefTes of this city 

 were exempted from paying reliefs %• 



In the city of Lincol (Lincoln) there were 1,150 inhabited houfes, 

 and twelve law-men (or judges) having fac and foe. 



The king's burgh of Stanford was charged as twelve hundreds and a 

 half in the rates for the army, the fleet, and Dane-geld, and paid a firm, 

 or farm, of ;^i 5. It had fix wards, five in Lincole-fhire, containing 

 141 houfes, and the fixth beyond the bridge in the fhire of Hantun 

 (Northampton), which paid all cuftoms along with the other five, except 

 the rent and toll due to the abbay of Burg (Peterburgh). There were 

 twelve law-men invefted with feveral privileges. 



Torchefey (Torkjey) was rated at/^i8. There were in it 213 bur- 

 o-efTes, whofe cufloms were generally the fame with thofe of Lincol : 

 but they enjoyed fome immunities, in confideration of being bound to 

 convey the king's meffengers in their boats from their own town to 



York. 



Melduna (Maldon) paid altogether ^^13. 



In Colecefira ( Colchejier ) the king's burgefTes paid two marks of fil- 

 ver, and alio, as a compofition for the rent of fix pennies on every houfe, 

 £15:5:4, of which £^ was paid by the coiners. 



In Norwic (Norwich) there were 1,320 burgefles. It paid, on vari- 



* Maitiii's fl<infi ave mcntioncJ iii tlic LiUl of f Derby is mentioned in Snotingeham-ftiire as 



Yngljl police, pviblidied by Hakluy t, [ Voiages, V. i, a part of it. 



i'. 199, td. 1598] among tlie commodities of Ire- J The other towns of York.fhire, now fo opu- 



land, from which tlicy were no doubt imported to lent with their ,' jurifliliig manufactures, are only 



Cheller. Perhaps fome were alfo brought from noted as farming villages. 

 Germany. See below, under the year 1156. j 



