Gras, Norman S. B., ed., "A List of Local Customs Due in the Port of Ipswich (?) c 1303 " in The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and Economic History of the Customs from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century. (Cambridge: Harvard Economic Studies, vol. 18, pp. 159-63)
Text name(s):
Number of pages of primary source text: 5
Author(s):
Dates: 1303 - 1303
Archival Reference: PRO, E122/157/12.
Original Language(s):
- Anglo-Norman
- Latin
Translation:
- Original language included.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- England
County/Region: East Anglia; Suffolk; Ipswich
Record Types:
- Custumal
- Taxes
Subject Headings:
- Economy - Crafts and Industry
- Economy - Trade
- Maritime
- Towns / Cities
Apparatus:
- Index
- Glossary
Comments:
The list is written in an alternating mix of Latin and Anglo-Norman. It consists mainly of the customs due on different types of commodities. There is a similar local port customs list written in Anglo-Norman for Sandwich (in William Boys, Collections for an History of Sandwich in Kent with Notices of the Other Cinque Ports, etc. (Canterbury, 1792, pp. 435-40), and for Southampton, in The Oak Book of Southampton of c. A.D.1300, ed. Paul Studer (Southampton Record Society, v. 10-12, 1910-11), vol. II.
Introduction Summary:
Introduction, glossary/index included in the volume.
Cataloger: MAK
