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Southampton has an unusually fine series of customs books, 1426-1982.  See the Southampton Record Series for Paul Studer (ed.), The Port Books of Southampton... 1427-1430, 1913; Brian Foster (ed.), The Local Port Book of Southampton for 1435-36, vol. VII, 1963; Henry S. Cobb (ed.), The Local Port Book of Southampton for 1439-40, vol. V, 1961; D.B. Quinn (ed.), The Port Books or Local Customs Accounts of Southampton for the Reign of Edward 14, in two volumes for the years 1469-71 & 1477-81, 1937-8; Thomas Beaumont James (ed.), The Port Book of Southampton 1509-10, vols XXXII-III, 1990. and brokage books.  There are also Brokage (or inland trade) Books, c.1430-1566.  See the Southampton Record Series for Barbara D.M. Bunyard (ed.), The Brokage Book of Southampton from 1439-40, 1941; K.F. Stevens and T.E. Olding (eds), The Brokage Books of Southampton 1477-8 and 1527-8, vol.XXVII, 1985 and Elisabeth A. Lewis (ed.), The Southampton Port and Brokage Books, 1448-9, vol.XXXVI, 1993.