Footnotes
[1] Fine for buying or selling contrary to the rules of the market.
[2] Services or conveniences, yielding no direct profit, which a holder of property rights had in respect of his neighbours, e.g., right of way, lights.
[3] Foreign here denotes all persons not inhabitants of Oxford.
[4] "Prance high, and rear their supple necks." From Virgil's Georgics.
[5] Passage was probably the due payable for the use of ferries.
[6] The most probable explanation of lastage is that it was the due payable for the right of freely carrying away goods bought in a market.
[7] Pontage was a due payable for crossing bridges.
[8] The liability of shipwrecked goods to be forfeit to the king, or the local holder, other than the king, of the right of wreck.
[9] Poulterers other than Londoners.
[10] See previous footnote.
[11] Regulation.
[12] According to regulation.
[13] Told.
[14] Gone.
[15] Another word for gild. Cf. the German Hanseatic League.
[16] I.e., from Newgate prison to Tyburn gallows.
[17] Literally a bird said to mimic gestures, idiomatically a foolish person.
[18] Simple fellows.
[19] The London district of Mayfair includes the site of this fair, and was named after it.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.