Dublin was given a grant of murage dated 20/7/1308.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant for six years, at the request of Geoffrey de Morton, to the bailiffs and good men of the city of Dublin, for repairing and strengthening the Bridge Tower, which had been accidentally burned, and the wall near that tower, of murage on wares brought for sale into the city, viz.:—
On every quarter of corn - 1/4d.
On every horse, mare, ox and cow - 1/2d.
On every hide of horse, mare, ox, and cow, fresh, salt or dry - 1/4d.
On every cart laden with salt meat - 11/2d.
On five bacon-hogs - 1/2d.
On ten small hogs - 1/2d.
On every fresh salmon - 1/4d.
On every lamprey sold before Easter - 1/4d.
On ten sheep, goats or swine - 1d.
On ten fleeces - 1/2d.
On a hundred (centena) of wool-fells, skins of goats, stags, hinds, bucks and does - 1/2d.
On every hundred of skins of lambs, kids, hares, rabbits, foxes, cats and squirrels - 1/2d.
On every cart-load of salt - 1/2d.
On every horse-load of salt, per week - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of cloth - 1/2d.
On every entire cloth - 1/2d.
On a hundred of linen, canvas, Irish cloth, calewythid and 'worthsted' - 1d.
On every cloth of silk with gold, of samite, diaper and baudekyn - 1/2d.
On every cloth of silk without gold, and chef' de cendallo afforciato - 1/4d.
On every cart-load of sea fish - 2d.
On every horse-load of sea fish - 1/4d.
On every tun of wine - 11/2d.
On every horse-load of ashes - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of honey - 1/2d.
On every tun of honey - 3d.
On every sack of wool - 2d.
On every truss of cloth brought by cart - 2d.
On every horse-load of cloth, or of divers small wares - 1/4d.
On every cart-load of iron - 1d.
On every cart-load of lead and tin - 2d.
On every horse-load of tan, per week - 1/4d.
On goods sold by weight (de averio dc pondere), that is on every hundred - 1d.
On every wey (peisa) of tallow and grease - 1d.
On every quarter of woad - 2d.
On every hundred of alum and copperas - 1/2d.
On two thousand onions - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of garlic - 1/2d.
On every thousand herrings - 1/4d.
On every hundred of boards - 1/2d.
On every mill-stone - 1/2d.
On every quarter of salt - 1/4d.
On every quarter of flour - 1/4d.
On every wey of cheese and butter - 1/2d.
On every twelve horse-loads of charcoal - 1/4d.
On every cart-load of brushwood, per week - 1/2d.
On every horse-load of brushwood, per week - 1/4d.
On every brewing caldron - 1/4d.
On every, bale of cordwain - 2d.
On every ship laden with brushwood - 1/2d.
On every thousand of roof nails (de quolibet miliari clavorum ad cumulum domus) - 1/4d.
On every hundred of horse-shoes and cart-clouts - 1/2d.
On two thousand nails of all kinds, except cart-clouts and roof nails - 1/4d.
On ever/ truss of any kind of wares exceeding in value five shillings - 1/4d.
By p.s.
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Rex ballivis et probis hominibus civitatis Dublin salutem.
Sciatis quod, ad requisicionem dilecti nobis Galfridi de Morton, concessimus vobis, in auxilium turris pontis Dublin, casualiter combuste, et muri, juxta turrim predietam, prostrati,reparandorum et emendandorum,quod a die confeccionis presencium usque ad finem sex annorum proximo sequencium completorum, capiatis in civitato predicta de rebus venalibus ad eandem venientibus consuetudines subscriptae videlicet:
De quolibet quarterio bladi veniente, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet equo et equa, bove et vacca, venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet corio equi et eque, bovis et vacce, frisco, salito aut tannato, venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet carecta ferente carues salitas, venales, tron obolas.
De quinque baconibus venaiibus, unum obolum.
De decem pernis venalibus, unum obolum.
De quolibet salmone frisco, venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet lampreda vendita ante Pascha, unum quadrantem.
De decem ovibus, capris, vel porcis, venalibus, unum denarium.
De decem velleribus venalibus, unum obolum.
De centena pellium ovium lanutarum, caprarum, cervorum, bissarum, damorum et damarum, venalium, unum obolum.
De qualibet centena pellium agnorum, capriolorum, leporum, cuniculorum, vulpium, catorum et squirellorum, venalium, unum obolum,
De qualibet carectata salis venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet summagio salis venali, per ebdomodam, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet summagio pannorum venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet panno integro vendito, unum obolum.
De centena linee tele, canevacii, pannorum Hibernicorum, Calewythid et Worthsted, vendita, unum denarium.
De quolibet panno de serico cum auro de samito, diaspre et baudekyn, unum obolum.
De quolibet panno de serico, sine auro et chef de cendallo afforciato, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet carectata piscis marini, vendita, duos denarios.
De quolibet summagio piscis marini, vendito, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet dolio vini vendito, tres obolos. De quolibet summagio cinerum venali, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet summagio mellis venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet dolio mellis venali, tres denarios.
De quolibet sacco lane venali, duos denarios.
De quolibet trusello pannorum venali, ducto per careccam, duos denarios.
De quolibet summagio panni venali, vel aliarum rerum diversarum et minutarum, venali, veniente ad dictam civitatem, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet carectata ferri vendita, unum denarium.
De qualibet carectata plumbi et stagni venali, duos denarios.
Do quolibet summagio tanni venali, per ebdomadam, unum quadrantem.
De averio de pondere, scilicet de centena, unum denarium.
Do qualibet peisa sepi et uncti, unum denarium.
De quolibet quarterio wayde venali, duos denarios.
De qualibet centena de alum et coperose venali, unum obolum.
De duobus miliaribus ceparum venalibus, unum quadrantam.
De quolibet summagio allei venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet miliari allecum venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet centena bordi venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet mola venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet quarterio salis venali, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet quarterio farine venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet peisa casei et butiri, venali, unum obolum.
Do qualibet duodena summagiorum carbonum venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet carectata busce venali, per ebdomadam, unum obolum.
De quolibet summagio busce venali, per ebdomadam, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet calderio ad braciandum venali, unum quadrantem.
De qualibet bala cordevanni, venali, duos denarics.
De qualibet navi carcata busca venali, unum obolum.
De quolibet miliari clavorum ad cumulum domus venali, unum quad ran tem.
De qualibet centena ferrorum ad equos et clutorum ad carectas, venali unum obolum.
Deduobus miliaribusorunimodorum clavorum venalium, exccptis clavis ad carectas et ad cumulum domus, unum quadrantem.
De quolibet trussello cujuscunque mercimonii venalis, veniente ad predietam civitatem et excedente valorem quinque solidorum, unum quadrantem.
Et ideo, vobis mandamus quod predictas consuetudines usque ad finem dictorum sex anuorum capiatis, sicut predictum est. Completo autem termino illo, dicte consuetudines penitus cessent et deleantur.
In cujus etc.
Per predictos sex annos duraturas. Teste, rege, apud Wyndesore, xxm°. die Julii. Per breve de private sigillo {1308}.
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Granted by Edward II. (Regnal year 2). Granted at Windsor. Granted by p.s..
Details of the petition which resulted in this grant can be seen
at this link. 
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1894,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward II (1307-13) Vol. 1 p. 90-91
online copyGilbert, J.T. (ed), 1870,
Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, 1172-1320 (Rolls Series 53) p. 270-73
online copy (Latin transcription)
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Hartland, Beth, 2003, 'Edward I and Petitions Relating to Ireland' in Prestwich, M. et al (eds), Proceedings of the Durham Conference 2001 Thirteenth Century England IX p. 60-1
Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 79-93
Comments
Revoked in 1312 as no work was done (see MI338). The previous grant did not end until 1309 but a new king often resulted in a new grant application -although in this case it may be that the uncertain government of the time was been taken advantage of.
'The receipt of petitions concerning Irish affairs in England was not, nevertheless, necessarily welcomed by the Dublin government. In 1276 the justiciar, Geoffrey de Geneville, complained that people travelled from Ireland to the king's court in England in order to misrepresent their situation, and he requested that the king disregard such false reports and turn instead for verification of the facts to his government at Dublin (fn. DAI. no. 17. This was a common complaint of Dublin minister who were almost paranoid about it in the 1350s: see R. Frame, English Lordship in Ireland, 1318-1361 (Oxford, 1982), 121-3.). The justiciar's complaint was not unjustified. Those who sent petitions to England from Ireland seem to have purposely avoided using the Dublin government as a channel of communication; in a number of cases, the petitioners knew the Dublin government officials would have denied their petition, and rightly so. The petition of Geoffrey de Morton for a grant of murage in Dublin as compensation for rebuilding the tower at the corner of the Dublin bridge was a case in point. Geoffrey was supposed to fund this rebuilding project himself. However, he petitioned Edward II directly, 'fraudulently' and 'surreptiously' claiming that the rebuilding of the tower belonged to the citizens of Dublin, and thereby was awarded a grant of murage for ten years in 1308 (fn. See CCR 1307-13, 455, 553; CPR 1307-13, 90-1; Rot. Parl., i. 275, no. 14; DAI, no. 87. For a detailed discussion of this episode see P. Connolly, 'The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey de Morton, Mayor of Dublin, 1303-4', Medieval Dublin, ii: Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2000, ed. S Duffy (Dublin, 2001), 241-50.' (Hartland)
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 14/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
