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Kilkenny was given a grant of murage dated 13/4/1282.

This was in the form of:-

Wording
Grant to the bailiffs and good men of Kilkenny of murage for three years from Midsummer.
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Grant to the bailiffs and men of Kilkenny for 3 years from the feast of St. John the Baptist, a. r. 10 {24 June 1282}, of the following customs to aid them in inclosing their vill, namely:-
From each ship coming to the vill laden with wine or other merchandise, 3d.;
each boat laden with merchandise, 1d.;
each last of herring, 2d.;
each thousand herrings, 1/4d.;
each cartload of sea fish, 4d.;
each seam {summagium} of sea fish, 1d.;
each sack of wool, 2d.;
each wey of wool, 1/2d.;
each horse, mare, ox or cow, 1/2d.;
each hide of horse, mare, ox, or cow, fresh, salted, or tanned, 1/4d.;
each cartload of billets, 1/4d.;
each wey of grease, tallow, butter, or cheese, 1/4d.;
each seam of corn, 1/4d.;
each last of ox hides, 6d.;
10 sheep or hogs, 1d.;
each hundred of wax, 1d.;
each hundred of pepper, 2d.;
each hundred of almonds, 1d.;
each hundred of cummin, 1/2d.;
each frail of figs, 1/2d.;
each frail of raisins, 1/2d.;
each seam of herrings, 1/4d.;
each seam of onions, 1/4d.;
each hogshead of wine, 1d.;
each hogshead of cinders, 1d.;
each thousand artichokes {cardones}, 1/4d.;
each hundred of butter, 2d.; {may be a mistranscribing of bricks}
each bound truss of cloth of the value of 24s. or more, 1d.;
each hogshead of white peas, 2d.;
each hundred of pitch, oil, or tar, 1d.;
each salt pig, 1/4d.;
each hundred of alum, 2d.;
each celdre of salt, 1d.;
each thousand of badger skins, 6d.;
each timber of squirrel skins, 1/2d.;
each hundred of linen or canvas cloth, 1d.;
each hundred nets, 1d.;
each whole cloth, 1/2d.;
each hundred sheep's fells, 2d.;
each timber of fox skins, 1d.;
each hundred of skins of lambs, rabbits, or hares, 1/2d.;
each 20 salmon, 1d.;
each hundred of mulvels, 1d.;
each hundred of foreign boards, 1d.;
each hundred of felt, 1d.;
each garb of steel, 1/4d.;
each millstone, 1/2d.;
and each hundred of oars, 2d.
At the end of 3 years the customs shall cease and be abolished. Devizes. {Pat., 10 Edw. I., m. 14.}

Granted by Edward I. (Regnal year 10). Granted at Devizes.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1893, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I (1281-91) Vol. 2 p. 18 online copy
Sweetman, H.S. (ed), 1877, Calendar of Documents Ireland 1252-1284 (London) p. 430 No. 1913 online copy

Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Munby, J. and Tyler, R., 2005, Kilkenny City Walls: Heritage Conservation Plan (Kilkenny: The Heritage Council) p. 189, Appendix B online copy
Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 126-32

Comments
The grant of 1266 for 3 years (CDI II 796), made again at the request of the lord, the Earl of Gloucester, is the first of a long series which became almost continuous from the late 14th century (CDI I 1913, 2136; II 913; V 239; CPI 62, 70, 79, 89; MCI 533) (Thomas)

Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 09/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.

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