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parts lying at a distance of ten leagues from the city of Norwich, 
performing for the bailiffs of the aforesaid city the right and due 
customs thereon. And that they may stay within the said city as 
long as they please. 
“ And the aforesaid merchants oblige themselves and all other 
merchants of Amiens and Corby bringing the aforesaid goods into 
the city of Norwich, to give to the bailiffs of the same city who 
for the time shall be, forty shillings per annum at the Nativity of 
the Lord, and to the commonalty of Norwich, or to their appointed 
attorney, forty shillings per annum at the Nativity of St. John 
Baptist, submitting to the distraints of the aforesaid bailiffs if it 
should chance that they fail in the said payment. 
“They have granted also that if the aforesaid merchants all or 
several [omnes seu plures] do not come to the aforesaid city with 
tho above-mentioned merchandise, and one comes from the afore- 
said towns, that he be compelled by the aforesaid bailiffs to making 
the payment of tho aforesaid four pounds in the above-mentioned 
form, or to performing fully the customs for which the dispute 
aforetime arose, which they confess that they themselves rightly 
perform, in such way as the bailiffs and citizens of Norwich think 
to bo most expedient for themselves. 
“ In witness of which thing the seals of tho aforesaid merchants 
of Amiens and Corby, and the seal of the commonalty of Norwich 
are alternately appended to this writing, made after the manner of 
a cirograph. Made [actum] on the aforesaid day, in the time of 
the Lord Salomann ami his companions, itinerant justices of the 
Lord the King, at that time at Norwich.” 
Previous to the thirteenth century there was probably a large 
trade in Norwich with madder for dyeing, and though there is no 
mention of a madder market in tho city in any extant record, 
the locality is perpetuated by the church of St. John being called, 
at least as early as 1250, St. John de Madermarket. There seems 
little doubt that the trade in madder declined during the thirteenth 
century, and the French merchants introduced Woad to take its 
place. At the close of that century there is frequent mention of 
men who are described as le weyder, for example : — “ Peter 
Pyremond, 1287, le weyder. Thorald de Causton, 1280, le weyder. 
John de Chersi, 1292, le weyder. John Havekyn, 1291, weyder 
