… This also we have granted that the citizens of Winchester of the Merchant Gild be quit of toll and lastage and pontage[7] in fairs and outside them, and in the seaports of all our lands, on this side the seas and beyond them.
Stubbs, Select Charters, 266.
1194. Charter of Richard I. to the citizens of Lincoln.
… This too we have granted that all citizens of Lincoln be quit of toll and lastage throughout all England and in the seaports.
Stubbs, Select Charters, 266.
1200. Charter of John to the citizens of York confirming a grant by Richard I.
… Know moreover that we have granted and by this charter have confirmed to our citizens of York quittance of any toll, lastage, wrec,[8] pontage, passage, or trespass, and of all customs, throughout England and Normandy and Aquitaine and Anjou and Poitou. Wherefore we will and straitly command that they be thereof quit, and we forbid that any disturb them in the matter, on pain of the forfeiture of £10, as is reasonably testified in the charter of our brother Richard.
Stubbs, Select Charters, 312.
The Great Value of the Market of Retford.
1329. The King to the Justices in eyre in County Nottingham.