mulvellus

mulvellus [ME mulwel, OF mulvel] , kind of fish, usu. cod (Gadus morrhua); b (as taxable commodity, also paid in kind). c1100 centum de salmone iiij d. centum de miluuello si ematur iiij d. (Cust.) MonA I 143a; in Albania ‥ duobus in locis ‥ pisces marini qui ~i dicuntur monoculi reperiuntur Gir. IK II 9; quod reperitur hodie / in mulwellis Albanie Ps.-Map 143. 328; 1202 et de careta ~orum j ~um ‥ ubi nullam consuetudinem capere debet de aliquo SelPlCrown 21; c1230 habebunt panem ordei et aquam ad potandum et allec vel muliwellum vel caseum bis in die (Cust.) Doc. Bec 85; 1232 concessimus ‥ quod capiatis ‥ de quolibet centum salmonum, congrorum, et mulewellorum ‥ unum obolum Pat 483; 1234 cum ‥ haberet ‥ quandam naviculam honustatam muluwellis ad vendendum CurR XV 1048 p. 231; 1328 Johanni Logan, clerico coquine, per viginti bacones, ducentes novemdecim murvellos ExchScot 89; 1329 computat ‥ in xxx milvellis emptis, x s. et in xxxvj salmonibus salsis emptis xviij s. Ib. 125; 1336 j mellvellus de stauro preempto Househ. Ac. 180; 1373 in ostreis, lampredis, allecibus, albis piscibus, moruellis, salmonibus, et turbotis ExchScot 451; c1376 in salmone ‥ in codlyng ‥ in melewell’ Ac. Obed. Abingd. 38; 1419 de milwello salso eadem capienda consuetudo MGL I 240.  b a1190 liberam et quietam ob omni teloneo ‥ multuello, mello, maquerello, harengis Act. Hen. II II 334.