Perhaps the best way to English the puzzling question, would be to render it thus:--"Whether plough-cattle, taken in illegal distress, are irrepleviable?" But several of the words are susceptible of two meanings. Thus _averia_ means goods, as well as cattle; _caruca_, a cart, as well as a plough; _namium_, a pledge, as well as a distress. It is not to be wondered at that the continental Professor found himself unable even to comprehend the terms of this perplexing question. CUSTOMS [DUES] AT WARRINGTON. Amongst the Tower records are three royal charters bearing date respectively 3 Edward II., 15 Edward II., and 12 Edward III. (1309-10, 1321-2, 1338), and granting, for the purpose of effecting repairs in the bridges and pavements, certain temporary customs on articles brought into Warrington for sale. In the two first of these charters, a custom of one farthing is imposed on every 100 faggots and every 1000 turves; and of one halfpenny on every cart-load of wood or wind-blown timber. The last of the charters imposes a custom of one penny on every 1000 faggots, one farthing on every 10,000 turves, one penny on every ship-load of turves, and one halfpenny weekly on every cart-load of wood and coals [_carbonum_, ? charcoal]. Amongst other articles, a custom was imposed on salt, on bacon, on cheese (probably from Cheshire), on butter, on lampreys, on salmon, on pelts of sheep, goats, stags, hinds, deer, does, hares, rabbits, foxes, cats, and squirrels; on cloths in the entire piece; on grice work (_i.e._, fur of the skins of blue weasels); on Cordovan leather, on oil in flasks (_lagenas olei_); on hemp, on linen webs; on Aylesbury webs and linen; on canvas, Irish cloths, Galways and worsteds; on silks, diapered with gold (_de Samite_) and tissue; on silks within gold; on sendal [or _cendal_, a kind of silk]; on cloth of baudekin [silk cloth, interwoven with threads of gold]; on gads of maple, and on Aberdeen gads; on every tun of wine (_et cinerum_--the ashes of burnt wine lees); on honey; on wool in sacks; on tin, brass, copper, iron, and lead; on alum, copperas, argil, and verdigris; on onions and garlic; and on stock-fish, salt mullet, herrings, and sea-fish, amongst a number of other articles.[224] FOOTNOTES: [202] Baines's _Lancashire_. [203] Claus., 7 Edward III., 1333, p. 1, m. 23. [204] Baines's _Lancashire_. [205] Dr. Whitaker's _Whalley_. [206] Baines's _History of Lancashire_. [207] Baines's _History of Lancashire_. [208] Baines's _Lancashire_. [209] West's _History of Furness_. [210] Baines's _History of Lancashire_. [211] Baines's _History of Lancashire_. [212] Baines's _Lancashire_. [213] _Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England._ [214] Dr. Hibbert-Ware's _Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England_. [215] Dr. Hibbert-Ware's _Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England_.