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copies of documents produced in above lawsuits, comprising i, charter of John to Southampton granting it the farm of the Port of Portsmouth; ii, extract from the Exchequer Rolls that Portsmouth collects its own farm and denies to to Southampton, temp. John; iii, copy of Charter of Henry VI, 1423, to Portsmouth; iv, translation of charter of Henry VI to Southampton, 1446; v, copy of lease of Town Quays, Portsmouth, 1661; vi, copy of commission and its report on extent of port of Southampton and its Members, 1680; vii, copy of case concerning anchorage dues in Portsmouth, 1756; viii, copy of case concerning coal dues, 1761; ix, copy of claim for wharfage dues, 1772; x, original leases of wharfage and cranage, 1641, 1661, 1687, 1689, 1763, 1825; xi, list of leases of wharfage; xii, notes of lawsuits on collection of tolls; xiii, copy charter 1 John to Southampton, xiii; xiv, abstracts of judgements in wharfage actions, 1761, 1772