decker

In England, a unit of count, = 10.

Rede hydes containing x hydes to the decker     xxxiii s. iiii d. [customs duty]

From a 1732 copy (British Museum Add. Roll, 16577) of a manuscript by T. Forgon, internally dated 15 July 1507, consisting of a list of customs duties on various articles, as reproduced as Appendix C in Norman Scott Brien Gras, The Early English Customs System, Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1918, page .

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