Gloucester (Gloucestre) was given a grant of murage dated 1/10/1345.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant, at the request of Thomas de Bradeston, to the bailiffs and good men of the town of Gloucestre of murage for seven years. By p.s.
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1345, October I. King Edward III. to the Bailiffs and men of Gloucester. We have, at the request of Thomas de Bradeston and in aid of the repairing and sustentation of the walls of the town aforesaid, granted to you that, from this date until the end of seven years, you may take of goods for sale coming to Gloucester by land or by water the following customs:
from each horse load of corn for sale, whatsoever kind it may be, or of malt, 1/4d.;
of each horse and mare, ox and cow, 1/2d.:
of each dole of wine, 2d.;
of each pipe of wine, 1d.;
of each hide of a horse or mare, ox or cow, fresh, salted, or tanned, 1/4d.;
of five (salted) pigs (bacones), 1/2d.;
of ten hams, 1/2d.;
of ten sheep, goats, and hogs, 1d.;
of ten fleeces, 1/2d.;
of each hundred of sheep-skins with the wool and of goat-skins, 1d.;
of each hundred of lamb-skins, kid-skins, hare-skins, rabbit-skins, fox-skins, cat-skins, and squirrel-skins (squirellorum pelles), 1/2d.;
of each hundred of gray-work (fn. 1) 6d.;
of each quarter of salt, 1/4d.;
of each horseload of cloth, 1/2d.;
of each whole cloth of the value of 40s., 1d.;
of each trussell of cloth brought by cart, 3d.;
of each hundred of cloth of worsted (de Worthstede), 2d.;
of each cloth of worsted called 'couerlyt ' of the value of 40s., 1d.;
of each hundred of linen cloth of Dilesham, (fn. 2) 1d.;
of each chief of cendalle afforced, (fn. 3) 1d.;
and of other cendalle, 1/2d.;
of each hundred of salted muluelli or durus piscis, (fn. 4) 2d.;
of each cartload of fish, 1/2d.;
of each horse-load of sea-fish, 1/2d.;
of each salmon, 1/4d.;
of each dozen of lampreys (lampredarum), 1d.;
of each barrel of sturgeon (sturioun), 1/2d.;
of each last of herrings, 6d.;
of each horseload of ashes, 1/2d.;
of each horse-load of honey, 1d.;
of each sack of wool, 2d.;
of each cart-load of tan by week, 1d.;
of avoir-du-pois (merchandize sold by weight), to wit of the hundred, 1d.;
of each pisa (fn. 2) of tallow and grease (unctus), 1d.;
of each quarter of woad (waide), 2d.;
of two thousand leeks (alei) or onions, 1/2d.;
of each bale (bala) of cordwain (cordewanni), 3d.;
of each hundred of bordus, (fn. 5) 1/2d.;
of each quern (mola), 1/2d.;
of each hundred of faggots (centena fagettorum), 1/4d.;
of each thousand of turves, 1/4d.;
of each cartload of brushwood (busca) or timber, by week, 1/2d.;
of each hundred of tin, brass, and copper, 2d.;
of each boat laden with ale, brushwood (busca), turves, or any other things whatsoever for sale exceeding the value of 20s., 1d.;
of each trussell of merchandize of any kind exceeding the value of 10s., 1/2d.;
of each ware not named here of the value of 5s. and over, 1/4d.
Granted by Edward III. (Regnal year 19). Granted at Langley. Granted by p.s..
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1902,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1343-45) Vol. 6 p. 563
online copyStevenson, W.H., 1893,
A Calendar of the Records of the Corporation of Gloucester (Gloucester) no. 46 p. 54-55
Online copy
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009,
Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Herbert, N.M., 1988, ‘Bridges, gates, and walls’, and ‘Gloucester Castle’, in Herbert, N.M. (ed),
VCH Gloucestershire Vol. 4 (Oxford: OUP for the Institute of Historical Research) p. 242-7
online copy
Comments
Thomas was constable of Gloucester Castle (Couslon).
fn. 1. Gray work, opus griseum, gris-avre, means furriery made of the skins of the animal known in Old French as the gris. This was one of the marten tribe. See Ducange, Dissertations sur l'histoire de St. Louys, I., and the Promptorium Paruulorum, p. 211. fn. 3 Dilham, near Worstead, Norfolk.
fn. 2. Sendal = Old Fr. cendal, a fine stuff of silk or linen, of which there were two descriptions, one called sendallum de cursu, meaning, apparently, sendal of ordinary thickness, and the other sendallum affortiatum, afforced or strengthened sendal. Chief seems to mean 'piece.' In the Wardrobe Account of Edward I., 1299-1300, p. 354, cindon' affortiatum and de cursu occur, which, being apparently the same as sendal, suggest that this is only an adaptation of Greek ……, a fine Indian muslin or cloth. Fleta, lib. ii. c. 12, § 2, says that the piece of sindon de cursu should contain 114 ells in length.
fn. 3. Durus piscis, 'hard fish' = stockfish. Mulvelli sometimes occur in English under the name of mulvelstokfisshe. The melwel, green fish, or Scotch cod, morhua vulgaris, is meant. The hundred of stock-fish contained eight score; Fleta, lib. ii. c. 12 § 12.
fn. 4. Peisa =Old French peise, poise, derived from Low Latin pensa, 'weight,' meaning probably the 'weigh' of cheese, etc.
fn. 5. An eastern fabric, generally distinguished as Bord Alexandre, from Alexandria.
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 16/01/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
