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1228 in N. S. B. Gras (1918) 155 (MED) Ad dominum de Torkeseye pertinet thourth-toll' et overthuerttoll' inter locos subscriptos.
1275–6 in W. Illingworth (1812) I. 126 Et si aliquis maneria habeat ex utraque parte civitatis & ducat suam carucam per mediam civitatem ballivi capiunt teoloneum quod vocatur Thurctol.
1323 20 July (P.R.O.: C 66/159) m. 20 Quandam custumam que vocatur Thurghtol de omnibus mercandisis per dictam villam de Melton Moubray & Kyrkeby transeuntibus.
1579 at Tolle Through tolle, is where a Towne prescribes to haue tol for euery beast that goeth through their towne.
1611 R. Cotgrave Droict de Chemage, the passage-toll, or through-toll, thats taken at Sens.
a1637 H. Calthrop (1655) 121 A prescription for through toll, adjudged to be good, because it was for maintenance of High-wayes.
1849 15 June i. 3/2 The through toll was not of itself sufficient to support the streets.
1892 6 Apr. 5/4 The amount received at Newcastle for through toll in one year amounts..to nearly 7,000l.
1907 16 Sept. 3/5 The water-borne coal passed over nine distinct navigations, and there is no agreed through toll.
2007 J. Masschaele in L. Armstrong et al. 148 Throughtoll was sometimes levied on roads or bridges that were not associated with a specific town.