302 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
shall then give warning thereof until the Mayor of this Burrough 
for the tyme being or his officers.” Freemen paid 6d. a year as 
freedom money, and payments were exacted from inhabitants who 
were not free. In 1566 a hundred such paid £4 2s. 11d. 
Apprentices, whether male or female, were bound before the 
Mayor and duly entered in the books of the Corporation. I have 
seen records of apprenticeships of girls extending over so long a 
period as fifteen years. 
The Receivers’ accounts of this borough contain a quantity of 
curious information, and not the least curious is that which relates 
to our present subject. The accounts are by no means complete, but 
they commence definitely so far back as 1486—not, as Mr. Henry 
Woollcombe has endorsed the volume, 1446. The chief sources 
of the town revenue then were rents, custom, the mills, the pound, 
the market, alewyts, and rollerage; we also find in subsequent 
years, tonnage, landleave, rollage and package, and wynewyts ; and 
the total ordinary receipts averaged between £50 and £60 a year. 
Most of these items explain themselves. The town custom refers 
to the scale of dues granted by Richard IL, already noticed. 
Tonnage was a payment of 1d. per ton by ships which came within 
the Cawsey, of which more anon. lLandleave was simply landing 
dues ; rollage and package was paid, as we subsequently learn, by 
brewers, and had, I suspect, something to do with the landing, &c., 
of casks. Ale and winewits were the dues paid by the drinking 
houses within the borough. ‘There does not seem to have been 
any restriction on their number, but from each a small payment 
was exacted. 
There were a few miscellaneous sources of revenue. Thus 
Thomas Tresawell, in 1483, received for “dawnsyng money of 
Agnes Dowster of Katon hoker, xis.; Johne, sruant of Thomas 
Groype, xis.; Jonett potter, ixs. ixd.;” while “ Johna filia Will 
Nycoll” and Roger Payne are set down without any amounts being 
entered. What this dancing money was paid for, and why it was 
paid, may be doubtful, but it is very clear what use it was put to. 
It went towards the erection of “Seynt John ys Ile yn Seynt 
Andrewe ys churche ;” so I hope it was properly come by. To me 
there seems something in the entry of a dubious character. 
Another item of receipt was the money paid for the use of the 
town carriers or barges—lighters—of which there were two, a great 
and a small, though neither could have been very big, as an old 
