. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED LIVERPOOL. Birkenhead Priory. Quarterly guUi and or, over all a crazier erect proper, in thejirtt quarter a lion of England, the Liverpool farm,'" one to Runcorn, the other (probably) to Birkenhead. In addition, the prior of the Benedictine monastery in Birkenhead enjoyed, from 1330 at the latest,"'* the right of ferry from Birkenhead to Liverpool. In 1317 "' Edward 11 granted to the prior the right of build- ing houses of entertainment for the use of the ' great num- bers of persons wishing
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED LIVERPOOL. Birkenhead Priory. Quarterly guUi and or, over all a crazier erect proper, in thejirtt quarter a lion of England, the Liverpool farm,'" one to Runcorn, the other (probably) to Birkenhead. In addition, the prior of the Benedictine monastery in Birkenhead enjoyed, from 1330 at the latest,"'* the right of ferry from Birkenhead to Liverpool. In 1317 "' Edward 11 granted to the prior the right of build- ing houses of entertainment for the use of the ' great num- bers of persons wishing to cross there,' who were ' often hindered,' by reason of 'con- trariety of weather and fre- quent storms.' From the re- cord of a Quo Warranto inquiry, to which the prior was sum- moned in 1354,"' we learn that the ferry tolls from the Birkenhead side were : for a man on foot, \d. ; for man and horse, zd. On Liverpool market days a man on foot was charged \d., and if carrying baggage \d. Probably the fares on the Liverpool ferry were the same. The connexion of the Birkenhead monastery with Liverpool was intimate. The prior held in Water Street a house and barn for the storage of corn waiting for the market.'" There is no evidence as to the nature of the tolls charged in the Liverpool market and fair. They yielded in all never less than ;£lo a year during the 14th century. With regard to the sea-going trade of Liverpool the evidence is equally ;* The appointment by the Crown of the mayor as deputy steward for the prisage of wines in the Port of Liverpool in 1364"^ seems to indicate that there was some importation of wines from Gascony, and this is borne out by other notices. Probably the sea-going trade of Liverpool at this period, as in the 16th century, was mainly with Ire- land, and consisted of an exchange of rough manufac- tured goods and iron, against cattle and hides. The fact that down to the 18 th century Bristol, Waterford, and Wexford were
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