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Winchester was given a grant of murage dated 16/2/1397.

This was in the form of:-

Wording
Grant, to the mayor and commonalty of Winchester of 26l. a year for five years from the subsidy and ulnage of cloth in that city and in the county of Southampton to he paid by the farmers, collectors, deputies, approvers or other holders or ministers of the said subsidy and ulnage, as from 18 August in the seventeenth year, for the repair of the city walls; on their surrender of letters patent of that date to the like effect found invalid because there are no farmers thereof. By p.s.

Granted by Richard II. (Regnal year 20). Granted at Westminster. Granted by p.s..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1909, Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II (1396-99) Vol. 6 p. 73 online copy

Secondary Sources
Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p. 183

Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 19/01/2009. Last updated on 03/05/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.

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