Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow.
(Act v. scene 3.)
With the above, therefore, we must associate our ‘Tollers,’ once registered as ‘Bartholomew le Tollere’ or ‘Ralph le Toller,’ together with our ‘Tolemans’ and ‘Tolmans,’ they who took the King’s levy at fair and market—by the roadside and the wharf.[[433]] Piers Plowman, in a list of other decent folk, includes—
Taillours and tynkers,
And tollers in markettes,
Masons and mynours,
And many other crafts.
Cocke Lorelle is not so complimentary. He says—
Then come two false towlers in nexte,
He set them by pykers (thieves) of the beste.[[434]]