Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
2. THE DISPOSITION OF A SUBSIDY OF TONNAGE AND POUNDAGE [_K.R. Customs
Accounts_, 159, 4], 1382.
This indenture made between Thomas Beaupyne of Bristol and John Polymond
of Hampton appointed in Parliament to make order for the safe keeping of
the sea by means of the subsidy of 6d. in the pound and 2s. on the tun
[of wine] on the coasts of the west, granted in the said Parliament for
the same cause, of the one part, and William Bast of the other part,
witnesseth that the said William has received from the said Thomas and
John 180l. of the said subsidy to find a ship and a barge of 180 men to
serve our lord the King on the sea for a quarter of a year, the said
quarter beginning on Michaelmas Day next or within fifteen days after,
as he shall deem best to be done, by the testimony of the mayor of
Dartmouth or the admiral's lieutenant in those parts, taking from the
commencement of the said voyage 20s. for each man for the said quarter,
together with all the profit that he may seize from enemies in the mean
time without impeachment, according to the form ordained and agreed upon
in the said Parliament, to be on the sea for the preservation of English
shipping according to their power, without making for the land of
England unless it be through tempest of the sea or other reasonable
cause during the said quarter; for the good and lawful performance of
which voyage in the manner abovesaid the said William hereby binds
himself, his heirs and executors, and all his goods and chattels,
moveable and immoveable, to our said lord the King to perform the said
voyage as is abovesaid; and the survey of the number of the said men,
according to the form of this indenture, shall be made and witnessed by
the admiral in those parts or his lieutenant. In witness whereof to
these indentures the parties aforesaid have interchangeably put their
seals. Written at Exeter, 24 August in the sixth year of the reign of
King Richard the Second after the Conquest.
3. THE KING'S PRISE OF WINES [_Fine Roll_, 13 _Edward_ II, _m._ 3], 1320
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