"thelony" meaning in English

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          "text": "As to thelony, it pleases us to exact old and just thelony from the merchants at bridges, and on ships and at markets. But let new or unjust thelony be not exacted where ropes are stretched or where ships pass under bridges, or in other similar cases in which no aid is lent to the travellers.",
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          "text": "If a small ship arrives at Billingsgate it will give one obole as thelony [custom]; If it is a long ship, or a barge, and if it stays there, one denarius as thelony. From a ship full of timber, one log as thelony. A freight ship gives thelony on three days a week, namely, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.",
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          "text": "Merchants, that is Jews – as well as other merchants, wherever they come from, from that country or from others – shall pay the just thelony [toll], both for their servants and their goods, as was always the case in the time of previous kings.",
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          "text": "This also I have added that if any Jew should at any time stay with them he shall pay no thelony [tolls].",
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