Worcester (Wigornia) was given a grant of murage dated 9/2/1224.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
De consuetudine capienda. Homines de Wigornia habent litteras patentes de consuetudine capienda in villa Wigornie in auxilium ville sue claudende usque in duos annos a die Purificacionis Beate Marie anno regni domini regis octavo, in forma que continetur in rotulo patentium de anno ipsius regis quarto pro burgensibus de Bruges et de Salopesbiry de auxilio habendo ad villas suas claudendas.
Teste ipso rege, apud Westmonasteriurn, ix die Februarii, anno etc. viij.
Granted by Henry III. (Regnal year 8). Granted at Westminster.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1901,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry III (1216-25) Vol. 1 p. 426
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. 209
Page, Wm and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds), 'The city of Worcester: Introduction and borough'
VCH Worcester Vol. 4 p. 373, 377-8
online copy
Comments
WORCESTER 3849 2548. Borough early tenth century (Defence, pp. 226-7). Mint 970s-1154. 1334 Subsidy £300. Roman town. Episcopal see from 680. Anglo Saxon burh in Burghal Hidage. Borough, civitas and mint in Domesday Book (Defence, pp. 226-7). Market town c.1600 (Everitt, p. 472). Fair in 1587, Palm Sunday (Harrison, p. 393). See also
VCH Worcestershire iv, pp. 377-8, 389-90, 415. (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 04/01/2009. Last updated on 03/05/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
