The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environsCathrall, William
History
The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environs
Cathrall, William
Natural history -- England -- Shropshire; Oswestry (England) -- History
“Know ye that we have granted in aid of enclosing our town of
Oswaldestre, that from the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in the
twelvth year of our reign to the end of twenty years thence ensuing,
ye may take in the same Town, to the reparation of the walls of the
same Town, of every horse-load of corn to be sold, one halfpenny; of
every horse and mare, ox and cow sold, one halfpenny; of every hide
of horse and mare, ox and cow, fresh, salt, or tanned, one farthing;
of every cart bringing salted flesh to sell, twopence; of five bacons
sold, one halfpenny; of a salmon fresh sold, one halfpenny; of ten
sheep, goats, or pigs sold, one penny; of ten fleeces of wool, one
penny; of one hundred skins of sheep, goats, stags, hind bucks and
does, one penny; of every hundred skins of lambs, kids, hares,
rabbits, foxes, cats, and squirrels, one halfpenny; of every cart of
salt to sell, one penny; of every horse-load of salt to sell by the
week, one farthing; of every horse-load of cloth to sell, one penny;
of every entire cloth to sell in the town of Gloucester, one penny;
of every cloth of silk brocaded and diapered with gold, one penny; of
every cloth of silk without gold and chef de cendall, one halfpenny;
of every dole of wine to sell, two pence; of every horse-load of
honey to sell, one penny; of every dole of honey to sell, four pence;
of every sack of wool to sell, four pence; of every truss of cloth to
sell brought by cart, four pence; of every horse-load of cloth to
sell, or other diverse and small things coming to be sold in the same
town, one halfpenny; of every cart of iron to sell, one penny; of
every horse-load of iron to sell, one halfpenny; of every carriage of
lead to sell, two pence; of tallow and lard to sell, one farthing; of
every hundred of alum and copperas to sell, one halfpenny; of two
thousand onions, a farthing; of every thousand of herrings to sell,
one halfpenny; of every hundred of boards to sell, one halfpenny; of
every mill sold, one penny; of every thousand of laths sold, one
penny; of every new cart sold, one halfpenny; of every hundred of
faggots to sell, one halfpenny; of every quarter of salt, one
farthing; of every twelve horse-loads of coal sold, one halfpenny; of
every thousand of all manner of nails to sell, except cart nails, one
farthing; of a thousand of cart nails to sell, one halfpenny; of
every hundred of horse shoes and clouts to carts to sell, one
halfpenny; for every truss of any sort of merchandise coming for sale
to the aforesaid town, of the value of two shillings, one farthing;
of every cauldron sold to brew, one penny; of every quarter of
oatmeal to sell, one halfpenny: And we therefore command that ye take
the said custom to the end of the term aforesaid, but the term of the
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