This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...322, Ann Waverl, p. 296. Prisage. General Merchandise. Wool. Maletotes. Antiqua Custuma, 1275. 1294. Carta Mercatoria, 1303 Nova Custuma, 1303 lating all matters of Commerce; the earliest were prisage, i.e., the king's right to one cask of wine out of every ten casks in the ship's load at 20/. a cask; customs on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...322, Ann Waverl, p. 296. Prisage. General Merchandise. Wool. Maletotes. Antiqua Custuma, 1275. 1294. Carta Mercatoria, 1303 Nova Custuma, 1303 lating all matters of Commerce; the earliest were prisage, i.e., the king's right to one cask of wine out of every ten casks in the ship's load at 20/. a cask; customs on general merchandise, which were in fact a kind of licence to trade, and on wool, which was peculiarly liable to maletotes or evil tolls. By Magna Carta all merchants were to trade without being subject to any evil tolls, but only to the ancient and lawful customs. In 1275 the Antiqua custuma was settled by the "prelates, magnates, and communities, at the request of the merchants" at half a mark on the sack of wool and on three hundred woolfells, and one mark on the last of leather; in 1294 this rate was raised by consent of the merchants to three marks on the sack and on three hundred woolfells, and ten marks on the last. By the Confirmatio Cartarum, 1297, the king's right of imposing arbitrary customs was restricted, (saving the custom of wools, skins and leather), and the maletote of 40/. on every sack of wool was released. In 1303, by the Carta Mercatoria, a custom of 40 pence on the sack and on 300 woolfells, and half a mark on the last, was obtained from the foreign merchants in return for a grant of certain privileges; this custom of 1303, known as the nova custuma, was refused by the representatives of the citizens and burghers. By the Carta Mercatoria the customs were fixed on a regular scale. Wine 2/. a cask in addition to the prisage; exported cloth 2/. to 1/. a piece; other imports and exports, 3d. in the pound value; in 1309, the Articles of Grievances petitioned against these new customs, and the duties on wine and merchandise...
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