tunnage

(24) Individual particular accounts could record several types of customs, not only petty customs and poundage but also tunnage, or subsidies on cloth exports, or ancient customs on wool and hides.

STREETWISE: Artist Mohammed Ali has painted a mural in Tunnage Square with pupils Khalid Salisu, Abbas Iqbal, Mohammed Taher, Connor Howard and Lester McKay Picture: GAVIN

Finally; in 1629 the Commons refused to give priority to the Tunnage and Poundage bill because their attention was then focused on matters of religion.

(23) In the same year, the London tunnage and poundage customs record that Cloos imported goods to a total value of 217 [pounds sterling] 6s 8d, and exported goods worth 17 [pounds sterling] 6s.

As early as the thirteenth century, ships often transported liquid in giant casks called "tuns." The ship's carrying capacity was referred to as its "tunnage." A gross ton is defined as being equivalent to 100 cubic feet of volume.

("tun") on a cask of foreign wine was called "tunnage," while a duty of one penny for each pound's worth of merchandize was "poundage").

As the two men walked into Tunnage Square passageway at 2.30am on November 15 they were "jumped" by a group of four men - O'Dea, Ta ylor, Richard Faustino and Thomas Canning.

The Tunnage Act of April 1694 mortgaged excise revenue of 140,000 [pounds] a year, of which 100,000 [pounds] was to be used to pay 8 per cent interest on a loan of 1,200,000 [pounds] put up by individual subscribers.

As the two men walked into Tunnage Square passageway, between Duke Street and Parr Street, at 2.30am on November 15, they were "jumped" by a group of four men - O'Dea, Taylor, Richard Faustino and Thomas Canning.