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'Appendix III: Value of imports, 1559/60 and 1565/6', in The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents, ed. Brian Dietz( London, 1972), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol8/pp152-155 [accessed 5 December 2024].
'Appendix III: Value of imports, 1559/60 and 1565/6', in The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents. Edited by Brian Dietz( London, 1972), British History Online, accessed December 5, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol8/pp152-155.
"Appendix III: Value of imports, 1559/60 and 1565/6". The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents. Ed. Brian Dietz(London, 1972), , British History Online. Web. 5 December 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol8/pp152-155.
III. VALUE OF IMPORTS IN 1559/60 AND 1565/6
The list of imports is made up from two documents, S.P. 12/8, ff. 63–9 and Lans. 8, ff. 75–6. The first is headed 'The particular valew of certayne necessary and vnnecessarye wares brought into the Porte of London in the second year of the Quenes Majestis reigne, the ouerquantyte wherof lamentably spoylith the realme yearly'; the second, which relates to the year commencing Michaelmas 1565, is simply endorsed 'wares brought in to London'. It is a less complete list than the first, with fewer items and others left unvalued. The list below is therefore based on the State Paper. Extra items from the later memorandum and those which are not identical with the earlier are printed in italics. The original spelling has been retained except for the £. s. d. symbols which have been modernised.
1559/60 | 1565/6 | |||||
ad valorem | ||||||
£. | s. | d. | ||||
Allame | 7,151 | 13 | 4 | |||
Almondes | 912 | 0 | 0 | |||
Annyseedes | 520 | 6 | 8 | £500 | ||
Apples | 876 | 3 | 4 | £260 | ||
Ashes vocat Sope ashes | 4,665 | 0 | 0 | £2,600 | ||
Babies (fn. 1) | 178 | 3 | 4 | |||
Balles voc Tennys | 1,699 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bandes for hattes | 109 | 13 | 4 | Hat bands | £269 | |
Basketts voc Sports | 247 | 0 | 0 | |||
Batrye | 6,078 | 15 | 0 | £3,600 | ||
Bayeburyes | 109 | 4 | 0 | |||
Belles | 112 | 18 | 8 | Bells for hawks, etc. | £159 | |
Blanketts | 368 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bokes vnbounde | 813 | 6 | 8 | |||
Bottells | 237 | 13 | 4 | £52 | ||
Bowtell | 1,161 | 16 | 8 | £1,180 | ||
Brushes | 757 | 18 | 8 | £365 | ||
Buckerams | 2,885 | 3 | 4 | £2,569 | ||
Budge | £1,688 | |||||
Buttons | 108 | 10 | 0 | |||
Cabages and turnops | 157 | 16 | 8 | |||
Canvas | 39,072 | 10 | 0 | £32,124 | ||
Canvas for dobletts | 685 | 0 | 0 | Canvas striped | £600 | |
Cardes | 2,837 | 10 | 0 | £2,800 | ||
Carpetts, bankars and | ||||||
cusshion clothes | 6,620 | 0 | 0 | Carpets | £887 | |
Chambletts | 3,627 | 16 | 8 | £9,268 | ||
Chese of Hollande | 2,482 | 13 | 4 | |||
Chests and coffers | 578 | 0 | 0 | |||
Cloves | 892 | 0 | 0 | |||
Combs | £169 | |||||
Corrants | 2,848 | 0 | 0 | |||
Crewell | 3,038 | 0 | 0 | |||
Damaske | 1,269 | 0 | 0 | £565 | ||
Dates | 610 | 0 | 0 | |||
Diaper and damaske | ||||||
worke | 875 | 0 | 0 | Diaper | £475 | |
Dornick | £500 | |||||
Eles freshe and salt | 1,580 | 13 | 4 | Eeles | £329 | |
Fethers | 1,863 | 0 | 0 | |||
Figges | 5,517 | 0 | 0 | £2,823 | ||
Fyshe voc salt fyshe | 7,996 | 0 | 0 | £1,462 | ||
Flaxe | 16,852 | 10 | 0 | £13,217 | ||
Fustians | 23,349 | 10 | 0 | £27,254 | ||
Gawles | 3,611 | 0 | 0 | |||
Glasses to drinke in | 663 | 10 | 0 | Glasses | £1,622 | |
Glasses to loke in | 667 | 0 | ||||
Gloves | 2,636 | 10 | 0 | |||
Ginger | 1,115 | 0 | 0 | £3,000 | ||
Ginger breade | 165 | 0 | 0 | |||
Gyrdells | 998 | 10 | 0 | |||
Grenes for womens | ||||||
apernes | 3,967 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hattes | 7,915 | 10 | 0 | |||
Hempe | 3,288 | 10 | 0 | £4,308 | ||
Herrings white | 1,797 | 0 | 0 | Herrings | £2,276 | |
Hoppes | 16,925 | 0 | 0 | £19,100 | ||
Inkhorns | £154 | |||||
Inkle | 8,412 | 10 | 0 | £1,860 | ||
Iron | 19,559 | 10 | 0 | £6,394 | ||
Iron wrought | £519 | |||||
Knyves | 1,558 | 0 | 0 | £362 | ||
Laces for all sortes | 775 | 6 | 8 | |||
Lemans and oranges | 1,756 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lynges | 3,176 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lynnen clothe | 61,673 | 13 | 4 | £86, 250 | ||
Maces | 930 | 0 | 0 | |||
Mader | 11,135 | 0 | 0 | £12,133 | ||
Marmelade | 337 | 0 | 0 | |||
Matches | 466 | 13 | 4 | |||
Meale | 1,340 | 0 | 0 | |||
Mockados | 3,087 | 10 | 0 | £6,400 | ||
Nayles | 5,636 | 0 | 0 | £5,730 | ||
Nedells | 471 | 10 | 0 | |||
Nutmeggs | 677 | 16 | 8 | £1,300 | ||
Nutts | 58 | 0 | 0 | |||
Onyons | 1,489 | 10 | 0 | £523 | ||
Onyon seede | £770 | |||||
Otes | 2,121 | 0 | 0 | |||
Oyle | 38,020 | 13 | 4 | £39,517 | ||
Panyles (fn. 2) | 1,648 | 0 | 0 | |||
Paper | 3,304 | 0 | 0 | £3,000 | ||
Pepper | 11,852 | 0 | 0 | £27,000 | ||
Pynnes | 3,297 | 0 | 0 | £4,274 | ||
Pitche and tarr | 3,300 | 0 | 0 | |||
Poyntes | 234 | 0 | 0 | Poynts of thread | £400 | |
Pottes | 627 | 13 | 4 | £316 | ||
Proynes | 9,405 | 15 | 0 | £4,500 | ||
Raysons | 9,135 | 15 | 0 | £7,325 | ||
Rye | 2,728 | 0 | 0 | |||
Roddes for basketts | 129 | 13 | 4 | Rods | £258 | |
Ropes and cables | 2,303 | 10 | 0 | Ropes | £2,759 | |
Sables and other furres | 3,793 | 0 | 0 | Skins of sables, etc. | £800 | |
Sackclothe | 717 | 15 | 0 | Sackcloth of thread | £1,600 | |
Salmon | 1,387 | 0 | 0 | |||
Salte | 2,943 | 0 | 0 | £3,325 | ||
Sarcenett | 1,903 | 0 | 0 | £9,934 | ||
Satten | 3,436 | 0 | 0 | £3,264 | ||
Saws | £259 | |||||
Sayes | 3,630 | 0 | 0 | |||
Silke | 7,130 | 0 | 0 | Sowing silk | £8,004 | |
Sinamon | 2,333 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sipers | 780 | 0 | 0 | £1,627 | ||
Skynnes | 4,838 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sope | 9,725 | 15 | 0 | £4,422 | ||
Spanish skins and shameys | £3,691 | |||||
Stile (fn. 3) | 2,920 | 0 | 0 | £5,007 | ||
Stockefishe | 2,605 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sugar | 18,237 | 0 | 0 | £18,000 | ||
Taffeta | 1,632 | 16 | 8 | £3,452 | ||
Tappistrye | 5,405 | 16 | 8 | £5,588 | ||
Threde | 13,671 | 13 | 4 | £15,745 | ||
Tykes for bedds | 5,939 | 0 | 0 | £4,955 | ||
Velvett | 8,614 | 0 | 0 | £1,292 | ||
Vinegar | £1,000 | |||||
Wheat | 9,285 | 0 | 0 | |||
Wyar | 1,375 | 0 | 0 | £2,197 | ||
Wyne Gascoyne Frenche Rochelle |
36,210 | 0 | 0 | Wynes | £48,634 | |
Wyne voc malvesay and muskadell | 4,905 | 0 | 0 | |||
Wyne Reynish | 4,340 | 0 | 0 | |||
Wyne Sacke | 21,742 | 0 | 0 | |||
Wyne bastarde | 1,252 | 10 | 0 | |||
Woade | 33,431 | 0 | 0 | |||
Woolle voc estrige wolle cotton wolle Spanish wolle |
5,683 |
0 |
0 |
Woll for hatts |
£7,469 |
|
Wormsede | £192 | |||||
Wursteds | 17,314 | 0 | 0 | £18,374 | ||
Yarne | £627 | |||||
Summa totalis of the particuler valewes afore wrytten | 643,319 | 18 | 0 | |||
Summa of the residewe inwarde for this year | 49,480 | 16 | 6 |
Note: the list for 1565/6 includes several commodities not in the earlier document but without assigning values to them. These are: 'banketing bred, bricks, caroweys, calls of lynen, flowers of feathers, molasses, musterd seade, quayles, racketts, rattells, ruiffs, sieves of gold and silk'.