Appendix III: Value of imports, 1559/60 and 1565/6

The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1972.

Citation:

'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://prod.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol8/pp152-155 [accessed 23 November 2024].

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'.