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The Baltic Trade 219

table 6.2


Import of wax in English harbors between 1303 and 1311


Customs year from Michaelmas to Michaelmas

London

Southampton

Sandwich

Ipswich

Yarmouth

Lynn

Newcastle

Hull

Boston

In total

From February 1303

231

¾

159


22

½

11

¼

33

½

312

¾

770

⅞ (39.162

¼ kg)

1303–1304

1425

1

½†

194


123

16


87

½†

22

⅛†

212

¾

2083

⅜^

(105.840

⅓ kg)

1304–1305

1037

¾

8


170

¼

243

10


5

½

5

½

40

¼

317


1838

⅝^

(93.406

½ kg.)

1305–1306

708

¾

15

414


24

½

70

¼

17

¾

13


181

¾

489


1934

¾ +

⅙^

(98.298

⅓ kg.)

1306–1307

976

½

7

676

¼

3

58

¾

30

2

317

386

2456

½^

(124.796 kg.)

1307–1308

1228


40


183

½

48

½

4

9

153

216

½

2067

⅜^

(105.027

½ kg.)

1308–1309

564

¾

44


38

½

9

76

¾

20


50

½

148

¾†

952

¼^

(48.376

½ kg.)

1309–1310

77

5


126

½

208

½^

(10.592

¼ kg.)

1310–1311

765

4

91

¼†

42

††

37

½††

30

††

248

1217

¼ (61.839 kg.)

By the table edited by St. Jenks, The Enrolled Customs Accounts, Part 1 Source: 1

The Enrolled Customs Accounts

(tna:pro E 356, E 372, E 364) 1279/89–1508/09 (1523/1534), ed. Stuart Jenks, Part 1 (Kew: List and Index Society 2004).

Data in Quintalli à 112 lb.†

These

rotuli

do not cover the whole period.

†† The custom was levied until October 9th 1311 (5 edw ii).
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