Buttevant (Botevaunt) was given a grant of murage dated 8/8/1316.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant, for three years, to John de Barry of murage for his town of Botevaunt upon all wares for sale brought into the town. By K. on the information of Bartholomew de Badelesmere.
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Cork County.- Account from the morrow of the close of Easter a.r. v. {26/3/1312} to octaves of SS. Peter and Paul a.r. x. {6/7/1317}, by William de Caunton and Richard de Clare, sheriffs.
The town of Botauaunt owes 105l. 13s. 4d., money received for murage.
Granted by Edward II. (Regnal year 10). Granted at Lincoln. Granted by K. on the information of Bartholomew de Badelesmere..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1898,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward II (1313-17) Vol. 2 p. 525
online copy1907,
39th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Ireland (Dublin) p. 73-4 - Pipe Roll a.. x. ED. II. (No. 44) (This roll is very much damaged)
online copy
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Comments
Missed by Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press)
The sheriffs accounts seems to be a large sum for just one years worth of murage. Was their an earlier, unrecorded, murage grant? Was the town saving the money to get a capital fund before starting the work?
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 13/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
