Canterbury was given a grant of murage dated 10/3/1380.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Licence, in consideration of Simon, archbishop of Canterbury, having begun, for the fortifying of the city enclosure, the construction of a new gate in the place of the old one called 'Westgate,' whereon used to be the old parish church of 'St. Cross, Westgate,' which the prior and convent of St. Gregory in the suburb of Canterbury have held to their own uses, the church and gate being razed and the parishioners unprovided with their own parish church, for the alienation in mortmain by Thomas Holt, John Bate, William atte Wode, Robert Plomer, Richard Tanner, Adam Jolif, Thomas Cokkere and Thomas Spile, of a plot of land in the city, held of the king in free burgage, fourteen yards (virgas) four feet long, six yards four feet wide, to the said prior and convent, who have licence to construct thereon a new parish church in honour of St. Cross (as their said old church was), and a churchyard, and to appropriate the same in mortmain. By p.s.
Granted by Richard II. (Regnal year 3). Granted at Westminster. Granted by p.s..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1895,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II (1377-81) Vol. 1 p. 450
online copy
Secondary Sources
Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol. 138 p. 208
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 10/02/2009. Last updated on 05/01/2013. First published online 5/01/2013.
