Crickhowel (Crukhowel) was given a grant of murage dated 26/11/1281.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant to the bailiffs, burgesses, and other men of Crukhowel of murage, for forty years, on goods brought to the town for sale, viz.:—
On every horse-load (summa) of corn - 1/2d.
On every horse, mare, ox, and cow sold (vend') - 1/2d.
On every hide of horse, mare, ox, and cow, fresh, salt, or tanned - 1/4d.
On every cart laden with salt meat - 11/2d.
On every five bacon hogs sold - 1/2d.
On every ten small hogs sold - 1/2d.
On every fresh salmon sold - 1/4d.
On every dozen shad sold - 1/2d.
On every lamprey before Easter - 1/2d.
On every ten sheep, goats, or swine - 1d.
On every hundred (centena) of woolfells, skins of goats, stags, hinds, bucks, and does - 1/2d.
On every hundred of skins of lambs, kids, hares, rabbits, foxes, cats and squirrels - 1/2d.
On every cart-load of salt - 1d.
On every horse-load (summagio) of salt sold, per week - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of cloth sold - 1/2d.
On every entire cloth sold - 1/2d.
On every hundred of linen web, canvas, and Irish cloth - 1d.
On every cloth of silk with gold, samite, "diarpe" and baudekyn - 1/2d.
De quolibet panno de serico sine auro et chef de cendallo
afforc' - 1/4d.
On every tun of wine and ashes (cinerum) - 11/2d.
On every horse-load of ashes - 1/2d.
On every horse-load of honey - 1d.
On every tun of honey - 3d.
On every sack of wool - 4d.
On every truss of cloth brought by cart - 3d.
On every horse-load of cloth or divers other small articles - 1/2d.
On every cart-load of iron - 1d.
On every cart-load of lead - 2d.
On every horse-load of tan, per week - 1/4d.
On goods sold by weight (de averio de pondere), that is, on every hundred (centena) - 1d.
On every wey (peisa) of tallow (cepi) and grease - 1d.
On every quarter of woad - 2d.
On every hundred of alum and copperas - 1/2d.
On every two thousand of onions - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of garlic - 1/2d.
On every thousand of herrings - 1/2d.
On every hundred of boards - 1/2d.
On every millstone - 1/2d.
On every hundred of faggots - 1/4d.
On every quarter of salt - 1/4d.
On every wey of cheese and butter - 1/2d.
On every thousand of roof-nails (clavorum ad cumidum domus) - 1/4d.
On every hundred of horse-shoes and cart-clouts (clutorum ad carectam) - 1/2d.
On every quarter of tan - 1/2d.
On every two thousand of all kinds of nails, except cart-clouts and roof-nails - 1/4d.
On every truss of all kinds of merchandise exceeding the value of two shillings - 1/4d.
On every brewing caldron - 1d.
Granted by Edward I. (Regnal year 10). Granted at Westminster.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1893,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I (1281-91) Vol. 2 p. 2-3
online copy
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p. 204
Comments
CRICKHOWELL 3217 2184. Borough 26 Nov 1281. On 26 Nov 1281, the burgesses and bailiffs of the town of Crickhowell received a murage grant. Crickhowell went into decline after the castle was attacked in 1403 (CPR, 1281-92, p. 2; Soulsby, p. 119). Market town c.1600 (Everitt, p. 472). See also Soulsby, pp. 119-20. (Letters, S., 2003,
Gazetter of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (Centre for Metropolitan History)
online copy)
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 09/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
