Trim (Treum) was given a grant of murage dated 4/1/1290.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant to Geoffrey de Genevile of murage for seven years from Easter for his town of Treum in Ireland.
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Grant to Geoffrey de Genevile in aid of inclosing his vill of Trim {Treum} and for the greater security of Ireland, that he may take in that vill from Easter ensuing until the end of seven years the following customs, namely:-
from each quarter of corn on sale, 1/2d.;
each horse and mare, ox and cow, 1/2d.;
each hide of horse, mare, ox, and cow, fresh, salt, or tanned, 1/4d.;
each cart carrying salt meat, 3 halfpence;
5 pigs, 1/2d.;
10 gammons, 1/2d.;
each fresh salmon for sale, 1/4d.;
each lamprey for sale before Easter, 1/4d.;
10 sheep, goats, or hogs, 1d.;
10 fleeces, 1/2d.;
100 skins of unshorn sheep, goats, stags, and hinds, bucks and does, 1d.;
100 skins of lambs, little goats, hares, rabbits, cats, and squirrels for sale, 1/2d.;
each cartload of salt for sale, 1d.;
each horse load of salt for sale, by the week, 1/4d.;
each horse load of cloth for sale, 1/2d.;
each whole cloth sold, 1/2d.;
one hundred of linen cloth, one hundred of cloth of Ireland sold, 1d.;
each cloth of silk with gold, silk tissue, diaper, and baudekin, 1/2d.;
each cloth of silk without gold, and chef de cendallo affortiato, 1/4d.;
each cartload of sea fish sold, 4d.;
each horse load of sea fish sold, 1/2d.;
each hogshead of wine sold, 3 halfpence;
each horse load of cinders for sale, 1/2d.;
each horse load of honey for sale, 1d.;
each hogshead of honey for sale, 3d.;
each sack of wool for sale, 2d.;
each truss of cloth conveyed by cart, 3d.;
each horse load of cloth for sale, or of other diverse and minute articles for sale, 1/2d.;
each cartload of iron for sale, 1d.;
each cartload of lead for sale, 2d.;
each horse load of tan for sale, 1/2d. by the week;
of avoirdupois, to wit, the hundred, 1d.;
prisage of tallow and grease for sale, 1/2d.;
each quarter of wood, 2d.; {sic woad is meant}
each hundred of alum and copperas for sale, 1/2d.;
2,000 onions, 1/4d.;
each horse load of garlic for sale, 1/2d.;
each 1,000 herrings, 1/4d.;
each 100 boards for sale, 1/2d.;
each millstone for sale, 1/2d.;
each quarter of salt, 1/4d.;
each quarter of flour for sale, 1/2d.;
each weigh of cheese and butter for sale, 1/2d.;
each dozen horse loads of coals for sale, 1/2d.;
each cartload of brushwood for sale, by the week, 1/2d.;
each horse horse load of logs, by the week, 1/4d.;
each cauldron for brewing, 1/2d.;
each bale of cordwain for sale, 3d.;
each ship laden with logs for sale, 1/2d.;
each 1,000 nails for the roofs of houses, on sale, 1/4d.;
each 100 horseshoes and cart nails, 1/2d.;
each 2,000 of all kind of nails for sale, excepting nails for carts and for roofs on houses, 1/4d.;
and for each truss of any kind of merchandise coming to the vill on sale and exceeding the value of 2s., 1/4d.
On completion of the term of 7 years the custom shall cease and be abolished. Westminster {Pat., 18 Edw. I., m. 45.}
Granted by Edward I. (Regnal year 18). Granted at Westminster.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1893,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I (1281-91) Vol. 2 p. 336
online copySweetman, H.S. (ed), 1879,
Calendar of Documents Ireland 1285-1292 (London) p. 277-8 No. 560
online copy
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 196-99
Comments
the earliest known murage grant is a charter dated 1289-90, granting to the lord of the town for 7 years for enclosing the 'vill and the greater security of Ireland' (CDI III 560). It was typical of its period and apparently made Trim the only Meath town apart from Drogheda to receive murage before the end of the 14th century. (Thomas)
Identical to Traylee, 1286, except prisage of tallow or lard reduced to half pence (Was this a deliberate change or a transcribing error? I suspect later.)
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 09/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
