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MR. E. CORDER ON THE CULTURE AND 
by the comb and the bushel, and their ashes by barrels, and their 
wold [woldam] * by pecks ; 
“the said dispute was settled on Saturday, the Feast of the 
Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year of the Lord MCCLXXXVI, 
and in the fourteenth year of the reign of King Edward, by 
the grace of God king of England, son of King Henry, on 
this wise, namely, that the before-mentioned bailiffs of Xorwich 
and the other citizens of the same city, for them and their 
heirs, have granted to the aforesaid merchants of Amiens and 
Corby and to all other merchants coming from the said towns to 
the city of Norwich, with their before-mentioned merchandise, 
that it shall be freely lawful for them to make their granaries of 
Woad there, rendering for every granary of Woad to the bailiffs of 
the aforesaid city fourpence only, for every barrel of ashes twopence 
only, and if they shall have brought their Woad in baskets [fraellis] 
they shall render to the bailiffs of Norwich for every basket 
fourpence only. They have granted also to the said merchants, 
that it shall be lawful for them to sell their Woad [weydam] by 
the comb and by the bushel, and their ashes t by one entire 
barrel, and their wold [woldam] by pecks to whomsoever they will, 
whether foreigners or natives, if they have brought those goods 
into the city ; so that the aforesaid bailiffs shall not be able to exact 
anything from the aforesaid merchants for their measures of Woad 
or for the aforesaid sale. And they have also granted to the 
aforesaid merchants that they may at their will remove their 
aforesaid goods so introduced and sell them to whatever other 
persons they wish, provided that no one of them buys from another 
the same goods so introduced, unless they wish to remove them by 
an entire granary [per granarium integrum] outside the city and in 
* Wold or weld, Resida lutiola, also known as yellow weed and dyer’s 
weed, belongs to the natural order Residaceso. It is quite common in this 
country, and was formerly largely cultivated on the Continent and in Britain 
for its brilliant yellow dye; this has been almost entirely superseded by 
other pigments. 
f The ashes were most probably similar to the barilla of the present day, 
an impure carbonate of soda, obtained principally from Salsola soda, a 
marine plant. The Saracens introduced barilla into Spain, and thence it 
was sent to France and England. In the Middle Ages ashes were used most 
probably as the alkali in dyeing, the term ashes being applied to kelp and 
pearlashes as well as barilla. 
