County: Middlesex
Code: D4674#1
Reference: London, Guildhall Library: MS 5440, fol. 19r
Function: Note
[line 13]Be hyt remembry that ín the tyme of Joh Mıcheỻ Meyre of london / Joh Seman Joħn atte
wat þe same tyme beynge Chereves þat ys to wete Jn þe ȝere of þe regne of kynge herry the Sexte
aft þe cōquest the ııȷde · / The sayde Joħn Seman and Joh at the water Chereves / deden an
haunce and heyne þe Tolle at the gates of londo be x · l / heyer thanne ıt was wone to be byfo
þat tyme / as men seyden / wervpo Thomas goodyng Brewe and Cytyȝen of londo Fraunchyse man
ha comȳg n Malte and oþer þynges at Bysshopısgate / vpo foreín hors wer whervpo the tolle
at that place beynge streyne for the tolle of tho maltes / A quart of malte wytħ an haltre And vp
o þat / ‸ þe same Thomᷓs goodyng wente and compleyne hym to þe Maystres of þe crafte / where vpo
þe Maystres wente to þe Meı and compleyne hem on ín þys wyse / seyde þat no fremane
of londo schuld pay nō tolle by ol record / that hatħ be graunted be ol tyme And þe
vpo þe mey seı that no freman for hıs Marchaundıses caryın vpo hıs owne hors or carte /
schul paye no tolle · but þat we le by a foreyneres the foreynere schul paye / where vpo þe
forseyde Maystres sey þat be he forseyd graunte of kynges / þat haue be he before / þat
by Shıppes botes hors Cartes ther schul no Frem of londo paye no tolle by wat ne lon /
And vpo þys the sayde Mey comaunded to Joh Carpent þe como Clerk of þe gyllde haỻ
to loke þe record owte þe recor ín þe haỻ ȝyf þere were ony sweche ordenaunse / and þere vpo
he de‸de so and come aȝen to þe Mey / and seıde þe was no ín þe boke of recor / but ‸ yn alytyỻ
quayer be syde · þe wheche stode for nō recor And þe vpo þe Mey bad he go ho tyỻ
he sent for hem
Jt was sey and telde be dıuse [...] ꝑsones þat þe was apanye wytħ appulus the qweche
was sent for a present and þerfore he toke to tolle an oƀ