from the 6s. 8d. per sack it had been since 1275. The customs tax
was finally fixed at 10s. for every sack of wool, 2s. for each tun
[casket] of wine, and 6d. for every pound's worth of other goods.
The "tenths and fifteenths" tax levied on income from movables or
chattels became regular every year. Edward also confirmed the
Forest Charter, which called for its earlier boundaries. And he
agreed not to impound any grain or wool or and like against the
will of the owners, as had been done before to collect taxes.
Also, the special prises or requisitions of goods for national
emergency were not to be a precedent. Lastly, he agreed not to
impose penalties on two earls and their supporters for refusing to
serve in the war in France when the king did not go.
From 1299, statutes were recorded in a Statute Roll as they were
enacted.
By the end of the 1200s, the King's wardrobe, where confidential
matters such as military affairs were discussed in his bedroom,
became a department of state with the King's privy seal. The
keeper of the privy seal was established as a new office by Edward
I in 1318. The wardrobe paid and provisioned the knights, squires,
and sergeants of the king and was composed mostly of civil
servants. It traveled with the King. The Crown's treasure, plate,
tents, hangings, beds, cooking-utensils, wine, and legal and
financial rolls were carried on pack horses or in two-wheeled
carts drawn by oxen, donkeys, or dogs.
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