When the time comes for the great Gild sale, men of good name shall be sought, to gather the fees of the merchants.
Non-freemen shall pay to the bailiffs, at the town-gates, for every cartload of corn coming into the town for sale, a halfpenny toll; and for every horse load a farthing.
Steel or iron 2d. per cartload, 1d. per horseload. New saddles the same, Millstones 4d. or 2d., Barrels 1d. or ½d., Tanned leather 2d. or 1d., Madder 2d. or 1d., Woad waxen 4d. or 1d.
Every cordwainer that has a shop shall pay to the king 6d. a year; and to the clerk 1d. for registration.
The master dyers of the painters have a custom to choose two good men who shall assay the goods of outsiders as between seller and buyer.
Every tanner shall pay 2s. a year for a stand in the High Street; and to the clerk a penny.
Every seller of grease, smeare and tallow shall at Easter pay to the king 1d. as smergavel.
Every shoe-maker using new ox leather shall pay at Easter 2d. as shongavel.
The city has a Common Seal and authentic, with which the town charters are sealed. An alderman keeps the charters for a year and a day. Three days warning must be openly given of the sealing. Such charters, unchallenged, are made good for ever by that seal. The sealers of grants to have 6d. for wax and all.