Obs. Also toll-. [f. TOLL sb.1 + SESTER.] A toll or duty of a sester of ale (SESTER 2) formerly payable in some manors to the lord of the manor for liberty to brew and sell ale.

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1232.  Charter Roll, 16 Hen. III., m. 2 (P.R.O.). De singulis bracinis cerusie venalis vnum sexterium ceruisie quod dici consueuit Tolsester.

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1499.  Rot. Plac., in Itin. apud Cestriam, 14 H. 7 (Blount, 1670). Per Tolsester clamat esse quietum de reddendo unum Sextarium Cervisiæ quod continet xvi Lagenas.

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c. 1640.  J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 341. In the 13th of Edward the third, 284. tollcesters, which I call brewings.

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1679.  Blount, Anc. Tenures, 153. If any Alewife brewed Ale to sell, she was bound to satisfy the Lord for Tolsester.

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1701.  Cowell’s Interpr., Tolcestrum, Tolsaster.

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1706.  Phillips, Tolsaster or Tolsester.

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