Obs. [TOLL sb.1] A book containing a register of beasts or goods to be sold at a market or fair, and the tolls payable for them; in the toll-book, in the market, for sale (in quot. 1607 fig.); also, a tax-collector’s register or assessment-book. Also in comb. toll-book keeper.
1596. Bacon, Use Com. Law (1636), 63 [see TOLL v.3 3]. Ibid. And the seller must bring one to avouch his sale, knowne to the toll-book-keeper.
1607. Tourneur, Rev. Trag., II. ii. Some that were Maides … are now perhaps i’th Toale-book.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. iii. § 36. Nor is it probable he was a Mendicant, who was rated in the Publicans Tole-Book, and paid Tribute unto Cæsar.
1679. Lond. Gaz., No. 1446/4. Whoever gives notice of the said Horse to John Warren aforesaid, or to John Davenport, Keeper of the Toll-Book in West Smithfield, shall have 20s. Reward.
