May 10. — King Edward III, granted licenses to the men of Newcastle, to work coals in the Castle Field and Castle Moor. He also issued orders concerning coal measures, suffered coals won in the fields of Gateshead to be taken across the river Tyne in boats to Newcastle, on condition of their paying the usual customs of that port, and after that to be sent to any part of the kingdom, either by land or water, but to no place out of it except to Calais. Coals were this year first exported to London from Newcastle. [LRS]

 

 

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes