Source: Printed
Title: The
Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and
Economic History of the Customs from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century.
By Norman Scott Brien Gras, Ph.D., 1918,
London, 284
Date: 4 September
1303
Place: Boston
Rotulus nove custume domini regis apud Sanctum Botulphum de rebus et mercandisiis
exeuntibus regno Anglie a x die Februarii anno regni Regis Edwardi tricesimo1
primo usque festum Sancti Michaelis proximo sequens recepte per manus Johannis
Idonisone Stephani de Stanham Galfridi de Sutton’ et Michaelis de Moliar2.
Roll of the lord king’s new custom at St Botulph, on things and merchandises
leaving the realm of England, from the 10th day of February in the 31st
year of the reign of king Edward, to Michaelmas following, received by the
hands of John Idonisone, Stephen de Stanham, Geoffrey de Sutton and Michael
de Moliar.
Navis Hermanni de Waldercome iiii die Septembris
De Wynebaldo
Plukerose pro i scarletta [cust.] ii s.
De eodem pro panno Anglie plumbo
et pluma val. £xlii [cust.] x s. vi d.
De Euerardo Plukerose pro panno Anglie
et oleo val. £lii xvii s. vi d. [cust.] xiii s. ii d. ob. q.
De Sibrando
de Grening’ pro panno Anglie et pellibus caprinis val. £xlii [cust.] x s.
vi d.
De Johanne famulo Roberti pro i scarletta [cust.] ii s.
De eodem pro
panno Anglie pellibus agninis et caprinis val. £C xiii xv s. [cust.] xxviii
s. v d. q.
The ship of Herman de Waldercome, the 4th day of September
From Wynebald Plukerose, for a scarlet3 customs 2s
From the same for cloth of
England, lead and feathers, worth £42 customs 10s 6d
From Everard Plukerose for cloth of England and oil, worth £52 17s 6d customs 13s 2¾d
From Sibrand
de Grening for cloth of England and goat skins worth £42 customs 10s 6d
From John Robert’s man, for a scarlet customs 2s
From the same for cloth
of England, lamb and goat skins, worth £113 customs 28s 5¼d
1 10 February 1303
2 MS.,
R. O., K. R. Customs, 5/7
3 a rich robe, not necesarily
red