Footnotes
Reading edition
[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.