Catalogue description Legal papers concerning tolls on corn

a. n.d. Case whether badgers and dealers in corn and bakers should be allowed to buy and sell corn out of open market, and whether they are guilty of ingrossing; or whether the baker by reason that he manufactures the torn, is exempt from such offence, and at liberty to buy corn in gross and out of market, although he thereby eludes a fair assize of his bread suitable to the price he gives for his corn, and also the toll claimed by the Clerk of the Market. 1f.

b. 4th Sept., 1762. Copy of examinations of Margaret Maddock and Elizabeth Beckett concerning the delivery of flour to various Chester bakers by James Price, a miller of Shropshire, and his refusal to pay tolls on his wagon-load of flour. 2ff.

c. n.d. Notes of evidence from the examinations of Mary Richardson, Mary Hughes, Jane Mason and Ellen Rutter concerning the collection of toll from corn brought into the City in the past.

d. n.d. Slade v. Lumber, in trespass, for taking toll of corn coming into the port of Chester. Notes concerning case in King's Bench. The corn in question came from Rye, and plaintiff claims that Barons inhabiting in the Cinque Ports are exempt from the payment of all tolls throughout the relam. Defendant is the Mayor's toll-gatherer. Concerns Chester's immemorial custom of faking toll of corn coming by sea into the port. It is stated that about seven or eight other vessels came at about the same time from the Cinque Ports to Chester with corn