† ˈtoll-book Obs.
[toll n.1]
A book containing a register of beasts or goods to be sold at a market or fair, and the tolls payable for them; in the toll-book, in the market, for sale (in quot. 1607 fig.); also, a tax-collector's register or assessment-book. Also in Comb. toll-book keeper.
| 1596 [see toll v.3 3]. 1596 Bacon Use Com. Law (1636) 63 And the seller must bring one to avouch his sale, knowne to the toll-book-keeper. 1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. ii. ii, Some that were Maides..are now perhaps i'th Toale-book. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. iii. §36 Nor is it probable he was a Mendicant, who was rated in the Publicans Tole-Book, and paid Tribute unto Cæsar. 1679 Lond. Gaz. No. 1446/4 Whoever gives notice of the said Horse to John Warren aforesaid, or to John Davenport, Keeper of the Toll-Book in West Smithfield, shall have 20s. Reward. |