316 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
£4 5s, 5d. a year, and this never seems to have formed an impor- 
tant item of the town revenues. A calculation made by one 
William Borrowes of the probable proceeds of a tax of 3d. a ton 
on all shipping passing from the town for every voyage (which he 
proposed should be levied for the purposes of the Castle), as not 
exceeding £40 or £50 a year, makes the total taxable tonnage at 
the commencement of the seventeenth century between 3,000 and 
4,000 tons only. The import of coals he puts however at 10,000 
chalders. 
A memorandum book for the year commencing Michaelmas, 
1623, shows that £6 6s. 6d. was then received for cranage, the 
articles craned including beer, wine, water, pilchards, train oil, 
timber, cider, ordnance, currants, vinegar, and tombstones. In the 
following year the moorage produced £8 12s. 11d.; and 195 ships 
paid charges varying from 4d. to 2s. Next to the English vessels 
the Scotch were the most numerous, then the French and Flemish. 
There were several Jersey ships, and a couple of Danes. In the 
next year bushelage and keelage yielded £16 7s. 5d. Bushelage 
consisted of a bushel taken from each cargo of dry goods, chiefly 
coal, salt, malt, barley, and wheat; though half a bushel of 
“‘peasen”’ appears to have sufficed. The charge for keelage was 
uniformly ls. 4d. In 1633 the receipts were—Moorage, £9 12s. 
10d.; quayage and customs, £44 16s. 8d.; tonnage, £4 13s. 3d. ; 
cranage, £2 8s. 10d.; total, £61 lls. 7d. This, you will under- 
stand, was the revenue the town received from Sutton Pool. 
The town customs, as I have already explained, were originally 
granted to enable the inhabitants to defend the town; and I have 
also alluded to the fact that Elizabeth added to this a tax on pil- 
chards. When the “fort on Haw clifts” which was the immediate 
predecessor of the present Citadel was built, the command was 
conferred on a nominee of the Crown, upon whom the charge 
thence fell, However the Corporation held to their customs. 
The value of these varied greatly. They were farmed by “Thomas 
Edmonds, gent” (father of the eminent statesman of the same 
and peas; 25 qrs. peas; 176 qrs. rye; 27 hundred hops; 60 hundred tallow; 
388 thousand healing-stones; 154 thousand dry-fish ; 14 tuns wine; 7 tons 
beef; 15 hundred canvas; 5 chests sugar; 17 pieces cloth; 6 tons “ caske ;” 
15 hundred hides; 9 last tar; 12 tuns vinegar; 12 tons iron; 3 tuns 10 hogs- 
heads “trayne;’’ 50 ‘‘ kerses;’’ 28 hundred oakum. 
The cloth and nearly all the salt came from France; the “wey” coal from 
Wales; the “chaldron” Newcastle. 
