A toll from the butchers and other stalls every market day 2d each.

On the first market-day after Michaelmas, each butcher pays 6d for his stand, called booking-money.

From butchers and others, at St. Andrew's Fair, Twenty-Day Fair, Candlemas Fair, PalmSunday Fair, Low-Sunday Fair, Trinity Fair, and St. Giles' Fair, for their stand 4d each.

On the market-day before Christmas, called Castle-Farm, each butcher pays 6d for his stand. Every butcher that has only a stall in the market on Christmas-Eve pays 12d each.

If any person come on St. Giles' Monday, who was not there on Saturday, he pays 4d, but all persons that paid on Saturday are exempt on Monday.

If any butcher die, or neglect to make use of his stall for six months, the corporation has the disposal thereof.

A toll, called Gate Law Toll, of one ld for every waggon or wain bound with iron, and one halfpenny for every bare wain.

Out of these rents and tolls, the corporation pay a reserved rent of £49. 13s. formerly belonging to the crown, but now to the Right Honourable Lord Elliot.

They also pay various small salaries to their officers.

Since the incorporation of the borough, the following is the list of the mayors down to the present time.

* On the commencement of the civil war, Jarvis Shillito, the mayor, fled to the castle; and it appears he continued in office during the year 1643 and 1644. Though some one of the aldermen was regularly chosen mayor, yet their civil authority within the borough, during the different sieges of the castle, was wholly annulled by that of the military.

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