The quarrymen received eighteen pence per ton , which covered drilling, blasting and transporting the stone to theb foreshore. Of this sum, a tithe was payable to the lord of the manor as cliffage. A bailiff had been appointed in each manor since the 17th century to collect cliffage, keelage, and customs charges on exported animals. Each ship that berthed on the foreshore was charged four pence Keelage […]