Intrantes

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Excerpt from Intrantes: A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade Within the City of Canterbury, on Payment of an Annual Fine, From 1392 to 1592Like the origin of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury the origin of these Intrantes or Enterers is, as far as I am aware, lost in the mists of antiquity. In our earliest accounts they appear as part of the well ordered customs of the city, without any word of explanation, or any word of comment. If our accounts reached back far enough we should, I suppose, find the beginnings of Freemen and Intrantes also, but our earliest manuscripts reach only to the year 1392 (except one or two subsidy rolls and some wills), and what occurred before that time is merely a matter of conjecture, and must be left to those who may feel inclined to speculate upon the matter. It is easily conceivable that, supposing Freemen were first, it would be found there were others standing, as it were, at the gates of the city and demanding admittance to some small share of its privileges, and this demand would have to receive attention. Hence men (and women) were admitted to live and trade, or follow their usual occupations within the walls of the city, and for this privilege they had to pay a certain annual fine/in submitting to this fine the new comers were placed more or less on an equality with the men who purchased their freedom. The man who bought his freedom paid for it a certain sum and became free, while he who desired to live and trade in the city paid his yearly fine until he found himself in_ a position _to take up his freedom, when he ceased his annual payments. If he did not become a Freeman he continued to pay until he died or removed beyond the City walls, as did John Mychell, bookbinder, m 1533-4, who migrated from Burgate probably to St. Paul's without the walls, and became the well known printer of that parish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.