- [1]
- Fine for buying or selling contrary to the rules of the market.
- [2]
- Services or conveniences, yielding no direct profit, which a holder of property rights had in respect of his neighbours, e.g., right of way, lights.
- [3]
- Foreign here denotes all persons not inhabitants of Oxford.
- [4]
- "Prance high, and rear their supple necks."
- From Virgil's Georgics.
- [5]
- Passage was probably the due payable for the use of ferries.
- [6]
- The most probable explanation of lastage is that it was the due payable for the right of freely carrying away goods bought in a market.
- [7]
- Pontage was a due payable for crossing bridges.
- [8]
- The liability of shipwrecked goods to be forfeit to the king, or the local holder, other than the king, of the right of wreck.
- [9]
- Poulterers other than Londoners.
- [10]
- See previous footnote.
- [11]
- Regulation.
- [12]
- According to regulation.
- [13]
- Told.
- [14]
- Gone.
- [15]
- Another word for gild. Cf. the German Hanseatic League.
- [16]
- I.e., from Newgate prison to Tyburn gallows.
- [17]
- Literally a bird said to mimic gestures, idiomatically a foolish person.
- [18]
- Simple fellows.
- [19]
- The London district of Mayfair includes the site of this fair, and was named after it.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. |
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