The Gatehouse website record of a grant of murage for Kilkenny granted 16/10/1283

Kilkenny was given a grant of murage dated 16/10/1283.

This was in the form of:-

Surtax:- for 4 years Starting 24/6/1284 running to 23/6/1288.

Wording

Grant to the bailiffs and good men of Kilkenny of murage on home and foreign merchandise (de mercandisis intrinsecis qaam extrinsecis) for four years from Midsummer next.
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Grant to the bailiffs and men of Kilkenny for the murage of their vill, that they may take from inward and outward merchandise, for 4 years from the feast of St. John the Baptist {24 June} a. r. 12, of the following customs:-
From each boat laden with merchandise on sale, 1d.;
each mease herrings, 1/4d.;
each cartload of sea fish, 4d.;
each seam of sea fish, 1d.;
each sack of wool, 2d.;
each weigh of wool, 1/2d.;
each horse, mare, ox or cow, 1/2d.;
each horse, mare, ox, or cow skin, fresh, salted, or tanned, 1/4d.;
each cartload of billets {busca}, 1/4d.;
each weigh of grease, tallow, butter, or cheese, 1/4d.;
each seam of corn, 1/4d.;
each last of ox hides, 6d.;
10 sheep or hogs, 1d.;
each hundred of wax, 1d.;
each hundred of pepper, 2d.;
each pound of saffron, 1/4d.;
each hundred of ginger and spices, 2d.;
each hundred of almonds, 1d.;
each hundred of cumin, 1/2d.;
each frail of figs, 1/2d.;
each frail of raisins, 1/2d.;
each seam of herrings, 1/4d.;
each seam of onions, 1/4d.;
each hogshead of wine, 1d.;
each hogshead of cinders, 1d.;
each thousand cardoons, 1/4d.;
each hundred of bricks, 2d.;
each bound truss of cloth of the value of 24s. or more, 1d.;
each cartload of lead, 2d.;
each truss of cloth not bound, 1/4d.;
each hogshead of white peas, 2d.;
each hundred of pitch, oil, or tar, 1d.;
each hog, 1/4d.;
each hundred of alum, 2d.;
each chalder of salt, 1d.;
each thousand of badger skins, 6d.;
each timber of squirrel skins, 1/2d.;
each hundred of linen cloth or canvas, 1d.;
each hundred of small wares, 1d.;
each whole cloth, 1/2d.;
each hundred sheep fells, 2d.;
each timber of fox skins, 1d.;
each hundred of lamb, kid, rabbits, or hare skins, 1/2d.;
20 salmon, 1d.;
each hundred of mulvels, 1d.;
each hundred of boards, 1d.;
each hundred of felt, 1d.;
each garb of steel, 1/4d.;
and each millstone, 1/2d.;
On completion of the term of 4 years the custom shall cease. Acton Burnell. {Pat., 11 Edw. I., m. 6.}

Granted by Edward I. (Regnal year 11). Granted at Acton Burnell.

Primary Sources

Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1893, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I (1281-91) Vol. 2 p. 83 online copy
Sweetman, H.S. (ed), 1877, Calendar of Documents Ireland 1252-1284 (London) p. 494-5 No. 2136 online copy

Secondary Sources

Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Munby, J. and Tyler, R., 2005, Kilkenny City Walls: Heritage Conservation Plan (Kilkenny: The Heritage Council) p. 190, Appendix B online copy
Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 126-32

Comments

The grant of 1266 for 3 years (CDI II 796), made again at the request of the lord, the Earl of Gloucester, is the first of a long series which became almost continuous from the late 14th century (CDI I 1913, 2136; II 913; V 239; CPI 62, 70, 79, 89; MCI 533) (Thomas)

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