The K. has considered how Thomastown is situated in the march of the said county near the K.'s Irish enemies and rebels, and that the K.'s faithful people of the neighbouring parts are for the greater part destroyed and plundered by the said enemies, and also the good place that the men of that town hold in those marches. Thus, earnestly desiring for the relief, improvement and fortification of the town, the K. has granted of his special grace to the provost and community of Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, in aid of enclosing the town with a stone wall, from the day of the making of these presents until the end of 20 years then following, that they may take, receive and have, by themselves or by deputies, from articles for sale coming to that town or crossing the said town with the purpose of selling, the following customs, viz.:
from each barge or large boat laden with merchandise coming by the said town, 4d;
from each small boat coming there similarly, 2d;
from each crannock of any kind of grain or malt for sale, 1d;
from each crannock of salt for sale, 2d;
from each horse or mare, hobby, ox or cow for sale, 1d;
from each carcass of an ox or cow for sale, 1d;
from each hide of an ox or cow, horse or mare, [whether] fresh, salted or tanned for sale, ¼d;
from each band of iron for sale, 1d;
from each mass of iron for sale, 1d;
from each bacon hog for sale, ½d;
from each load of sea fish for sale, 1d;
from each bovecco or Juvenca for sale, 1d;
from each pig for sale, ½d;
from each mutton sheep or goat for sale, ¼d;
from each mease of herrings, fresh or salted, for sale, 1d;
from one hundred boards for sale, ½d;
from each steel tool [asceri] for sale, ½d;
from each large woolen [cloth], 6d;
from each stone of wool for sale, ½d;
from each falding worth 2s for sale […], ½d; and worth 12d, ¼d; and worth worth 5s, 1d;
from 10 loads of firewood for sale […];
from each 1000 nails for sale, 1d;
from two solidates of any kind of timber for sale, ½d;
from each […] of bark [corticis] for sale, ½d;
from each piece of woollen or linen cloth or any other merchandise for sale, […];
from each gallon of honey for sale, ¼d;
from two pounds of wax for sale, ½d;
from each salmon for sale […], ¼d;
from each tun of wine for sale, ¼d;
from each pipe for sale, 2d;
from each sum of cloth […], […]d;
from each sum of cork [Corkie] for sale, 1d;
from each peck of tallow, oil, butter and cheese for sale, ¼d;
from each hundredweight of horse-shoes and cart-clouts for sale, ¼d;
from two stones of hemp for sale, ½d;
from each new cart for sale, 1d;
form each pair of wheels for sale, 1d;
from each plough[-share] [aratrum] for sale, ¼d;
from each whole cloth, English or overseas, for sale, 4d;
from each pound of silk for sale, 2d;
from each cap of muslin for sale, 2d;
from each crannock of Stoncoll' or Wodecoll' for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of glass for sale, 1d;
from each hundredweight of cardonum for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of kitchenware of brass or copper, lidded or unlidded [operati vel non operati] for sale, 2d;
from each stone of iron for sale, ¼d;
from each crannock of Tandust for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of eels for sale, ¼d;
from each hundredweight of Teslys for sale, ½d;
from ten skins of sheep, Shorlings, lambs, goats, hares, rabbits, foxes, cats or squirrels for sale, ½d;
from each pound of ginger for sale, ½d;
from each pound of saffron for sale, 1d;
from each pound of pepper for sale, ¼d;
from each pound of galangal [Galyngal] for sale, ½d;
from each pound of cloves for sale, 1d;
from each pound of mace, ginbibes, and grain of Paris [grandeparys] for sale, ½d;
from all other kinds of spices worth 12d, ¼d;
from 10 pounds of almonds and rice [Rys] for sale, ½d;
from each frail of figs and of raisins for sale, ½d;
from 100 pounds of garlic for sale, 12d;
from 100 pounds of leek seeds for sale, 3d;
from 10 pounds of onion seeds for sale, 1d;
from 20 ells of canvas for sale, 2d;
from each bolo de eylesam for sale, 1d;
from each piece of card' [a sort of muslin] for sale, 1d;
from each coverlet or other bedcover for sale worth 4s, 1d;
from ten felt caps or other cloth caps for sale, 1d;
from each piece of legys for sale, 1d;
from 12 yards of Irish cloth for sale, 1d;
from each see [m] de Slabbys for sale 1d;
from each fotmel of lead for sale, ½d;
from all kinds of Avoirdupois [Averdepays] worth 12d, ¼d;
from each 1000 nails of Spykynges for sale, 2d;
from 10 Sharris for sale, 1d;
from each frail of kitchenware for sale, 3d;
from each grosso cacabo for sale, 1d;
from each cella worth 5s for sale, 1d;
from each load of butter for sale, 1d;
from each lestre of butter for sale, 2d;
from each pipe of wax for sale, 1d;
from each last of leather for sale, 6d;
from each dicker of leather for sale, 1d;
from all manner of hides worth 12d for sale, ¼d;
from each horse worth 40s and more for sale, 3d;
from 100 dry fish for sale, 2d.
And from all kinds any merchandise of which mention is not made here worth 12d for sale, ¼d;
and from any merchandise worth 2s for sale, ½d; and worth 5s for sale, 1d.
And the K. orders them to take and have those customs from articles for sale in the said form until the end of the said term, at the end of which the customs shall cease and be removed entirely. So that the money derived [from the customs] shall be spent faithfully on the murage of the said town, and not otherwise, and that the lanes and ways of the town […] shall be cleansed of all filth year on year and kept clean of filth during the said term. The K. wishes that, at the end of each year during that term, they render their account on this faithfully before the venerable father, the bp Ossory and the abbot of Jerpoint, or either of them, and not at the K.'s Ex. of Ire., from year to year.
