Pp43-46 Mills' Statutes, 1821

[Custom Rates 1577]

The Rates of the Customs at every Port within the Isle of Mann, allowed and confirmed by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Derby, Lord of the said Isle. Given the 28th Day of June, Anno Domini 1577.

The Merchant Stranger shall pay for every Pound in Silver he shall take forth of this Isle,	ijd. ob.
Ale the Barrell	jd. ob.
Ash Timber the Cth 3 or	vjd.
Allom the l00th	ijd.
Anchorage, a Ship, Bark, or Pickard, with a Cock Boat	viijd.
Without a Cock Boate	iiijd.
Barley the Bowle in a Bulke of the Stranger	jd.
In Caske the Barrell	ijd.
Barley in Bulk the Bowle of the Island	jd.
In Caske the Barrell	jd.
Bread the Batch	ijd.
Biskett the l00th	jd.
Beefe the Carkesse	ijd.
Beefe Quick	xijd.
Boards sawen or cloven the 100th 3 or	vjd.
Butter, the Barrill	jd.
Beere the Barrill	ijd.
Brass the l00th	viijd.
Woollen Cloath.
Broad the 100th	ijs.
Broad the Doz.	ijd.
Narrow the 100th	viijd.
Narrow the Doz.	ob. qs.
Fourty Slatts raw Cloath	iiijd. ob.
Coales the Boat, 1 Barrell, or	iiijd. ob.
Irish Linen Cloath the 100th	vjd.
Poul Davy the Bolt	vjd.
Vitteras the Boult	iijd.
Calfe Skinns the 100th	xijd.
Calfe Skins the Doz.	ob. qs.
Cheese the Weigh	vjd.
Caddowes	ijd.
Dapyues the Doz.	vjd.
Windfish the Doz.	vjd.
Dryfish the Doz.	vjd.
Fish the Tonn	xijd.
Eeles Cane the 100th	viijd.
Flesh the Barrel	ijd.
Fledges	ijd.
Flocks the Stone	jd. ob.
Flax the Bale	jd.
Sheep and Calves.
Sheep and Calves the 100th	xijd.
The Doz.	ijd. ob.
Lambs and Kidds the 100th	vjd.
The same a Doz.	jd.
Feathers a Stone	ijd.
Goates Quick the Doz.	iiijd.
Goates Fells the 100th	vjd.
The Doz.	ob. qs.
Geeze the Doz.	iijd.
Ox Hydes 8 to the Dicker. Cow Hydes 10 to the Dicker.
Hydes the Dicker	iijd.
Haberdine the 100th	vjd.
Herrings the Tonn	xijd.
Horses one	vjd.
Herrings the Maze	jd.
Hopps the 100th	vjd.
Honey the Firkin	jd. ob.
Henns the Doz.	ijd.
Iron the Tonn	xijd.
The same a Hundred	ob. qs
Kidds the Dox.	iiijd. ob
Kidds Fells the 100th	vjd.
Kidds Fells the Doz.	jd.
Lambs Quick the Doz.	iiijd.
Lambs Skins the 100th	vjd.
The same a Doz.	jd.
Lyme the Boat, a Barrell, or	jd. ob.
Mather the Hundred	vd.
Mault the Bowl	jd.
Mantles one	ijd.
Ruggs the Hundd.	ijd.
Nails the Thousand	iijd.
Nails the Hundd.	ob.
Nails the Last	ijs. vjd.
Oak Timber or Sparrs the Hund. 3 of either Sort, or	vjd.
Oares the Hund. 3 or	vjd.
Oates the Bowle	jd.
Pitch the Hundd.	jd. ob.
The Foot Pack	vjd.
The Horse Pack	xijd.
Plancks for Shipps the Undd. 3 or	xijd.
Pewter the 100th	viijd.
Plow Beames the 100th, 3 or	viijd.
Pullen the Doz.	ijd.
Rossin the Hundd.	jd. ob.
Hayre Roapes the Doz.	jd. ob.
Roapes British the 100th.	vjd.
Rugg frized the Doz.	jd. ob.
Raisen the Fraile or Head	iijd.
Rye the Bowle	jd.
Sheep the Doz.	iiijd.
Swine the Doz.	iiijd.
Salt the Tonn	xijd.
Shipp with Salt, British or Portugale, inward, shall pay a Quarter Tunn before the Mast, and another above the Mast, if it be xx Tunns, or els the Half
Shoes the Doz.	iijd.
Shafts Square the Hundd. 3 or	vjd.
Salmon the Butt	vjd.
Salmon the Barrell	iijd.
The Firkin	jd. ob.
Soape the Hundred	iiijd. ob.
Sheep Skins the Doz.	ob. q.
Sack the Butt	vjd.
A small Boat or Pickard loaden with white or gray Emglish Salt, shall pay a Firlett before the Mast, and another after. Tallow the Weight is 256lb, or the Weigh of Cheese.
Trayne the Tunn	xvjd.
Tarr the Hundd.	ijd. ob.
Tallow the Hundd.	vjd.
The Half Hundd.	iijd.
Tanned Leather the Dickerr in the Country	vjd.
And the Stranger Man	xd.
Wine the Tunn	xijd.
A ship with Wynes, that is xx^t Tunn or more, shall pay the Price Wynes, viz. Half a Tunn before the Mast, and Half a Tunn above the Mast; and for every other of the rest xijd. the Tunn as is abovesaid; and if the Shipp have ten Tunn, then to pay Half a Tunn to Price Wynes and not under.
Wool the Stone	ijd.
Wadde the Ballett	viijd.
Wadde the Hund.	vjd.
Wheat the Bowle	jd.
Woollen Cardes the Doz.	iijd.
The Entering of evry Boar, Bark or Pickard	jd.
The Anchorage in dry Harbour, or within the Heads, having a Cock Boat	viijd.
Without a Cock Boat	iiijd.
Oares of every Boat after the Rate of paying for 100t	viijd.
Shafts, Sparrs, Plow Beames, Oak Timber, and all other kinds of Timber, the 100t 3 or	viijd.

21^o die Junij, 1669.

The Deemsters and 24 Keys being demanded to deliver unto whom the Penny given for entering every Boat, Barque, or Pickard, is due to be paid; they say it ought of right to be paid to the Captaine's Clark, because he keepeth a Book of all Entries whatsoever, and returneth to the Customers a Tickett of those Entries.

A COCKET MAKING.

To all the K. or Q. Majesties Officers, and other Her loving Subjects within the Realme of England, or elsewhere within her Grace's Realmes or Dmnions, to whom these presents shall come to be seen, read or understood, Greeting.

Know ye, that A.B. Master and Merchant of the Ship called the C.D. belonging to the Isle of Man, whereof the Right Hon. the Earle of Derby, Viscount Kinton, Lord Stanley and Strange, Lord of Mann and the said Isle, and of the most Honourable Order of the Garter, Knight, and E. F. Knight, Lieutenant to the said Earle, of the said Isle, are Owners, hath well and truly laden aboard the said Ship in the Poart of Douglas, in the said Isle, to and for the Use of the said Owners, 520 barrels of Wheat, every Hundred 5 Score; 20 Dicker of rough Salt Hydes, and ten Hundred rendered Tallow, every Hundred 6 Score Pound Weight, to be transported in the same Ship, from the said Isle of Mann, unto the Isle of Bion, in Galicia, or unto Lisburne, into Portugale, or where the said Ship may best make Sail of his Loading; and hath well and truly Paid all Dutys and Customes due for the same. In Witness whereof unto these Presents, wee the Water Bayliff and Customer of the Isle of Mann, have put our Seale of Office, the 1st Day of February, in the 24th Year of our Sovereigne Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queene of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.




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