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traventria

traventria [cf. traventare], (act or place of) tranter's sale of goods (esp. without licence, in contravention of regulations, or without paying custom duty). b custom duty on such sale. 1320 hernes' quando venerunt de ~a totum fuit ruptum KR Ac 99/38; 1448 vendunt servis[iam] in travent': ideo ipsi in misericordia MS Warwick RO, Warwick Castle Muniments, Alcester 152; 1485 tenent traventr': ideo ipsi omnes in misericordia MS Warwick RO, Warwick Castle Muniments, Alcester 175.  b 1301 et de ix s. iij d. de quadam consuet' que vocat' ~ia recept' de diversis transeuntibus per partes Cornub' cum equis ad emend' pisc' hoc anno Pipe 146 m. 31 (2); c1312 de quadam consuetudine dicta ~ia ad predictos terminos LTR Ac 19 r. 36; 1337 tenent de domino duce traveteriam pertinentem ad dictum manerium quam cepereunt de dicto comite Capt. Seis. Cornw 1 f. 11.

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