Bradbury 52 Appendix 11 -12 Charges Market Rates – Cockermouth History (click here for home page)

Bradbury - Appendix 11 -12 Charges on Goods - Market Rates

‘Pontage’ charged on goods entering or leaving the town, 1306.

Each load of grain or malt	¼ d
Each horse, mare, ox or cow	½ d
Each horse hide, ox hide, salt (fresh) or tan	¼ d
Five ‘bacons’	½ d
Ten hams	½ d
Ten sheep, goats or pigs	1 d
Ten fleeces	½ d
Hundred of sheepskins or goatskins	1 d
Hundred of lambskins, kids, hares, rabbits, foxes, cats or squirrels.	½ d
Hundred ‘greywork’	6 d
Quarter of salt	¼ d
Load of cloth	½ d
Each whole cloth worth 40s.	½ d
Cartload of trussed cloth	3 d
Hundred of worsted cloth	2 d
Hundred of linen	½ d
Hundred of Aylesham linen	1 d
Each ‘chief de sendal’ (thin, rich silk material)	1 d
Each other sendal	½ d
Hundred of salt cod or hard fish	2 d
Cartload of sea fish	4 d
Load of seafish	½ d
Each salmon	¼ d
Dozen of lampreys	1 d
Thousand of herrings	¼ d
Load of ashes	½ d
Load of honey	1 d
Each sack of wool	2 d
Cartload of bark, weekly	1 d
Hundred of avoirdupois (merchandise sold by weight)	1 d
Wey (large measure of 200 to 300 lbs.) of lard or grease	1 d
Quarter of woad	2 d
Two thousand onions or garlic	½ d
Bale of shoe leather	3 d
Hundred of boards	½ d
One millstone	½ d
Hundred faggots	¼ d
Hundred turves	¼ d
Cartload of brushwood or timber weekly	½ d
Hundred of tin, brass or copper	2 d
Load of oat flour	¼ d

Market rates laid down by the Court Leet 1660.

“for every bushel of corn or grain brought to our market OY2d. per busheIl and for every load or pack which comes through or within the liberties of our Burrough 2d. For every ox steer cow or heifer killed by any butcher not free in our Burrough and sold within the Town or Burrough 4d. per head and for every sheep and calf so killed and sold 1 d. per head. All narrow country cloth wch comes to our markett to be sold the same to be sealed and therefore to pay ½ d. for every yard.”