1 gen 1600 anni - groundage

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This was a customary payment levied on ships when they were berthed alongside a quay. Originally the toll seems likely to have been based on the ‘ground’ they occupied when they lay upon the shore. It is said to have been principally associated with the port of London but the custom certainly applied elsewhere. In Bridlington, for example, in 1542, the <i>tolls and grundage of the kay</i> amounted to 48s 1½d: among the vessels taxed were twenty-one <i>Frans shyppes</i>, twenty-three <i>colle shyppes</i>, probably from Newcastle, and <i>one shypp of Grimsbe</i> carrying salt (YRS80/42). Other east-coast ports had similar tolls: 1540-7 <i>tolneto, tallagio, groundagio</i>, Whitby (SS72/724); 1600 <i>the groundage of every ship landed Filowe peere</i>, Filey (YAJ70/74).

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