Note 21 (note) — ERRATA.

[3] The protection from “evil tolls” was also a matter of great consequence. It was to be regarded as a security from paying so large a custom or imposition upon any goods that the fair profit is lost therein, and the trade thereby prevented. The original term expressive of this is Mala Tolneta, the word toll or tolt being derived from the Saxon Tholl, Low Latin Tolnetum, or Theolonium, which signifies a payment in markets, towns, and fairs, for goods and cattle bought and sold. It also stands for any manner of custom, subsidy, imposition, or sum of money taken of the buyer for the importing or exporting of any wares; and it may be assumed that the words in Magna Charta were used in their evident sense. The compound word Mala-tolneta, which appears in the original text, signifies bad or evil tolls, or unjust exactions. In the later statutes it is rendered into French by the ancient term Maletout (Vide R. Thomson’s “Notes on the Great Charters,” 1829).