Hereford was given a grant of murage dated 18/10/1547.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
18. Oct.
Grant to the Mayor and Citizens of Hereford that the mayor and his successors may be the king's coroner there during the king's pleasure, and no other coroner exercise within the precinct or liberty of the said city.
And grant during the king's pleasure of the following murage, upon goods coming thither for sale, namely:-
From a horse load (summagio) of corn of any kind or of malt, 1/4d.;
from each horse, mare, ox and cow, 1/2d.;
from each tun of wine, 2d.;
from a pipe of wine, 1d.;
from a hide of a horse, mare, ox or cow, fresh and salt, or tanned, 1/4d.;
from five fliches (baconibus) or ten ten gammons (pernis), 1/2d.;
from ten sheep, goats or swine, 1d.;
from a horse load of iron, 1/2d.;
from a hundred of skins of buck, deer and she goat, 1d.;
from a hundred of leather skins (coriorum pellium) of roe, hare, coney, fox, cat and squirrel, 1/2d.;
from a hundred of badger (grisei operis), 6d.;
from a quarter (quarteno) of salt, 1/4d.;
from a horse load of cloth, 1/2d.;
from each entire cloth worth 40s., 1d.;
from each bale (trussello) of cloths brought by cart, 3d.;
from each hundred of cloths of Worsted, 2d.;
from each cloth of Worstede called "coverlett" worth 40s., 1d.;
from a hundred linen cloth (linee telo) of Alysham, 1d.;
from each case of strengthened sendal (de quolibet ches' de cendallo afforciato), 1d.;
and from other sendal, 1/2d.;
from a hundred of salted mulvel or of hard fish, 2d.;
from a cart full of sea fish, 1/2d.;
from a horse load of sea fish, 1/2d.;
from a salmon, 1/4d.;
from a dozen lamprey, 1d.;
from a tun of sturgeon, 1/2d.;
from a last of herring, 6d.;
from a horseload of ashes, 1/2d.;
from a horseload of honey, 1d.;
from a weigh (weia) of cheese or butter, 1d.;
from a cart of bark (tanni) weekly, 1d.;
from weights 1d. the hundred;
from a weigh (peisa) of tallow and lard (vinti), 1d.;
from a quarter of "waide" 2d.;
from 2000 of garlic or onions, 1/2d.;
from a bale (bala) of cordwain, 3d.;
from a hundred of board, 1/2d.;
from a millstone, 1/2d.;
from a hundred of faggots, 1/4d.;
from 1000 of turves, 1/4d.;
from a cartful of brushwood (busshe) or timber weekly, 1/2d.;
from a hundred of tin, brass and copper, 2d.;
from a boat laden with ale, brushwood, turves or other goods worth over 20s., 1d.;
from a bale (trussello) of merchandise worth over 10s., 1/2d.;
from any merchandise not here specified worth over 5s. (wools, hides and woolfells except), 1/4d.
The proceeds to be expended in repairing the walls by survey of the mayor and the dean of the cathedral of St. Thomas, Hereford, who shall render account thereof yearly before twelve of the wiser citizens.
By p.s. {II. 875. Hampton Court, 16 Oct.}
Granted by Edward VI. (Regnal year 1). Granted at Hampton Court. Granted by p.s..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1924,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward VI (1547-48) Vol. 1 p. 64
online copy
Comments
Reconfirmation of virtually vested right to murage under a new king. I can't find a similar reconfirmation for Queen Mary. I suspect this may be as much to do with the town currying favour as royal control.
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 08/01/2010. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
