Newcastle-upon-Tyne was given a grant of murage dated 3/2/1327.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Licence for the mayor, bailiffs, and men of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in aid of the walling of the town and for the defence of the same and the parts adjacent, to levy, for seven years, by the hands of Adam de Galewaye, Richard de Acton and John de Denton, or two of them, the following customs on goods brought for sale into the town:—
On every ship laden with merchandise other than wine - 4d.
On every boat laden with merchandise - 1d.
On every last of herrings - 2d.
On every thousand herrings - 1/4d.
On every horse-load of sea fish - 1d.
On every sack of wool - 2d.
On every wey (256 lb.) of wool - 1/2d.
On every horse, mare, ox and cow - 1/2d.
On every hide of horse, mare, ox and cow, fresh, salt, or tanned - 1/4d.
On every last of ox hides - 12d.
On ten sheep and pigs - 1d.
On every load of corn - 1/4d.
On every chaldron of corn - 1d.
On every chaldron of salt - 1d.
On four loads of charcoal - 1/4d.
On every cart-load of peat and brushwood - 1/4d.
On every wey of grease, tallow, butter and cheese - 1/4d.
On every chaldron of sea coal - 1/2d.
On every hundred weight of wax - 2d.
On every hundred weight of pepper - 2d.
On every hundred weight of almonds - 1d.
On every hundred weight of cumin - 1/2d.
On every frail of figs and raisins - 1/2d.
On every load of garlick - 1/4d.
On every load of onions - 1/4d.
On every tun of wine - 2d.
On every tun of ashes - 1d.
On every assize of woad - 1d.
On every thousand thistles - 1/4d.
On every hundred weight of kitchen utensils (bateria) - 2d.
On every bale of cloth bound (trussetto pannorum ligato) of the value of 20s. and no more - 1d.
On each cart-load of lead - 2d.
On every bale unbound - 1/4d.
On every tun of white peas - 2d.
On every tun of pitch, oil and tar - 1d.
On every bacon pig - 1/4d.
On every hundred weight of alum - 2d.
On every thousand of grey-work (grisei operis) - 6d.
On every packet of squirrel skins - 1/2d.
On every hundred weight of linen cloth and canvas - 1d.
On every hundred weight of nets - 1d.
On every whole cloth - 1/2d.
On every hundred weight of woolfells of sheep - 2d.
On every packet of skins of foxes - 2d.
On every hundred weight of skins of lambs, rabbits and hares - 1/2d.
On twenty salmon - 1d.
On every hundred weight of dried melwells (mulvellorum) - 1d.
On every hundred weight of green boards - 1d.
On every hundred weight of boards de Mureff - 4d.
On every hundred weight of estrich boards - 1d.
On every hundred weight of felt - 1d.
On every sheaf of steel - 1/4d.
On every mill stone - 1/2d.
On every hundred weight of oars - 1/2d.
On every bale of all kinds of merchandise exceeding the value of two shillings - 1/4d.
Richard de Emeldon, Thomas de Frismareys and Thomas Danlyn are appointed to see that the above customs are applied only to walling the town. By K. & C.
Granted by Edward III. (Regnal year 1). Granted at Westminster. Granted by K. & C..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1891,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1327-30) Vol. 1 p. 3-4
online copy
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 15/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
