ABSTRACT
Easterlings, the men of Flanders, Holland, and the Baltic coasts, and the men of Normandy and Picardy. Their ships were mere coasters, as were all ships before the invention of tlie needle ; the principal import was the wine of France, while wool, skins and leather formed the principal exports. Of wine, a toll in the strictest
every ship having in cargo ten casks or more, on the arrival of the ship at a port in England, viz., one cask from a cargo of ten up to twenty casks, and two casks from a cargo of twenty or more, unless the toll formed the subject of a composition in the way of a money payment.1 The original amount of the custom for wool is unknown. For merchandise of other kinds the payment exacted was probably a disme or quinzinne, a tenth or fifteenth on the value of the goods.2
