[14] He was executed on a gibbet, erected on purpose, on Slindon Common, near the Dog and Partridge, and afterwards hung in chains on the same gibbet.
[15] This Shoemaker Tom had been a notorious smuggler, but no murder being charged against him, he was by the court admitted on evidence.
[16] Willis and Stringer stand both indicted for the murder of Galley and Chater.
[17] Edmund Richards also stands indicted for being concerned in the murder of Galley and Chater.
[18] Henry III. had been advised to permit the export to Holland and Brabant, at a duty of 5 marks to the sack; and it was calculated that this duty, willingly paid, would yield 110,000 marks (£66,333 13s. 4d.), implying an export of 22,000 sacks, in six months. Blaauw’s “Barons’ War,” Ap., p. 2.
[19] “Rot. Hun.,” ii., pp. 203–209.
[20] Rymer’s “Fœd.” (1821), ii., p. 944.
[21] In 1340 the greatest store of wool was conveyed by stealth. John Smith’s “Memoirs of Wool,” 2 vols., 8vo, 1747, vol. i., p. 80.
[22] Rymer’s “Fœd.,” ii., p. 1158.
[23] A sack was to contain twenty-six stones of fourteen lbs. each, or 364 lbs.