Kings Lynn (Lenn) was given a grant of murage dated 14/5/1266.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant to the mayor and good men of Lenn of murage for four years from the feast of the Holy Trinity 50 Henry III.
Granted by Henry III. (Regnal year 50). Granted at Northampton.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1910,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry III (1258-66) Vol. 5 p. 596
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. 128
Comments
Turner suggests this was a response to an attack on the town by the Disinherited in Easter week.
KING’S LYNN 5617 3198. Borough 1204 (BF, p. 139). 1334 Subsidy £500. Lynn probably grew up on areas of new land raised out of the estuary of the Great Ouse by the activities of salters, between the inlets of Millfleet and Purfleet. During the twelfth century it expanded rapidly as a trading centre and by the early thirteenth was one of the principal ports of England. King’s Lynn was incorporated in 1524 (D.M. Owen,
The Making of King’s Lynn Records of Social and Economic History, ns ix (London, 1984), pp. 6-9; BF, p. 140; CPR, 1476-85, p. 131). Bishop’s Lenn was held by the bp of Norwich. Market town c.1600 (Everitt, p. 474). Fair 1587, 2 Feb (Harrison, p. 392). See also D.M. Owen,
The Making of King’s Lynn Records of Social and Economic History, ns ix (London, 1984). (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 07/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
