The Gatehouse website record of a grant of murage for Cashel granted 1/3/1320

Cashel (Cassell) was given a grant of murage dated 1/3/1320.

This was in the form of:-

Surtax:- for 5 years Starting 1/3/1320 running to 28/2/1325.

Wording

De muragio pro civitate Cassell.
Rex ballivis & probis hominibus de Casell salutem Sciatis quod concessimus vobis in subsidium ville praedicte cum muro lapideo claudende quod a festo Sancti David' Episcopi anno r' n' xiii usque ad terminum quinque annorum proximo sequens plenar' completoram capiatis in eadem villa cons' subscriptas videlicet de quolibet crannoco frumenti fabarum pisarum & cujuscumque generis bladi ven' unum den' &c. in forma consueta Et ideo &c' T' Rogero de mortuo mari Justic &c' apud Drogheda xxxo die febr' anno supradicto.
{my translation}
The king to the ballifs and good men of Casell greetings. Know I have conceded to you, to help enclose the said town with a stone wall, from the feast of St David Bishop in the 13th year of our reign until the end of 5 years fully next following to suitably take in the same town the customs written below as follows;
For each crannock of wheat, beans, peas and any sort of type of corn for sale 1 penny
and so on in the ordinary form.
And therefore and so on. Witnessed Roger Mortimer Justice and so on at Drogheda 30th day of February in the above written year.
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1 Mar. 1320 Drogheda
GRANT to the bailiffs and worthy men of Cashel, in aid of enclosing the town with a stone wall, that they may take the following customs in the accustomed form for five years, viz.:
from every crannock of wheat, peas, beans and every kind of corn, 1d. .
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Rex concess' ballivis et probis' homnib' de Cassell in subsid' ville praed' claudende quod per 5 an' capiant consuetud' etc. in forma consueta. Drogh', 30 Feb.

Granted by Edward II. (Regnal year 13). Granted at Drogheda. Granted by Rogero de mortuo mari Justic.

Primary Sources

Commissioners on the Public Records of Ireland, 1889 (prepared 1829-30), Chartae Privilegia et Immunitates, being transcripts of charters and privileges to cities, towns, abbeys and other bodies corporated, 18 Henry II. to 18 Richard II., 1171 to 1395 (Dublin; Irish Record Commission) p. 52 (Ref. E Rot. Pat. Edward II. 13 Edw. II. a. 79) (Dated 1319)
A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, c. 1244-1509, PR 13 Edw. II View CIRCLE record
Tresham, Edward (ed), 1828, Rotulorum patentium et clausorum cancellariae Hiberniae calendarium (Dublin; His Majesty's printers) p. 27 No. 79

Secondary Sources

Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 46-8
1835, Reports from Commissioners: Municipal Corporations in Ireland Vol. 28 p. 461 online copy

Comments

'By a charter of the 30th February, 13 Edw. II., (a. n. 1319,) enrolled, (Rot. Pat. Edward II. 13 Edw. II. a. 79,) the King granted to the bailiffs and good men of Cashell certain murage customs for five years.' (MCI)
30th of Feb.? The rate is high (a farthing is the rate Drogheda 1317 grant although Dublin was taking 4d) but this will have raised money but also possibly dissent.

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