[23]. Staple articles: in their case ‘Englishmen’ means members of the Staple, and ‘Aliens’ includes such Englishmen as exported cargoes of wool, &c., to the Mediterranean.
[24]. A sack of wool contained 14 tods, each of 28 lb. weight, or 392 lb. in all (Lansd. MSS., 152, f. 239).
[25]. Excluding cloth. Cloth duties are given separately below.
[26]. 1811 ed., pp. 193–6.
[27]. On internal evidence it is probably slightly before the time of Henry VII.
[28]. Rolls of Parliament, vi. 269, 270.
[29]. Live animals.
[30]. Foedera, xi. 793–803.
[31]. Arnold’s Chronicle, pp. 193–6. But compare the details of Hanse privileges in 1552 (inf. p. 167). There is no evidence that any alteration was made in the duties, and Arnold’s figures must therefore be received with caution.
[32]. Harl. MSS., 306, f. 82.