The Gatehouse website record of a grant of murage for Galway granted 8/11/1549

Galway was given a grant of murage dated 8/11/1549.

This was in the form of:-

Surtax:- {forever}

Wording

Nov. 8. 1549. 3 Edward VI
Charter of Galway, ratifying and confirming a charter of Richard the II., who, by letters patent, dated 26 January, 19° of his reign, granted licence to the Provost and co-burgesses of the town, to elect annually, for ever, from amongst themselves, a sovereign, who should swear to rule the town faithfully; that no foreign merchant should buy or sell any merchandize in the town, except in gross; and that they should have all privileges, immunities, tolls, and free customs, as freely as the burgesses of the town of Drogheda, reserving all fines which belonged to the lord of said town; and reciting and confirming a patent of Richard II., 18th November, 19°, granting them, in order to fortify and pave the town, the following tolls :—
for every pound of ginger one penny;
for every pound of saffron 2d.;
for every pound of pepper one farthing;
for every pound of galingale 1d.;
for every pound of cloves 1d.;
for every pound of grains of paradise 1d.;
for all other spices, worth 12d., one farthing;
for 100 pounds of wax 6d.;
for 100 pounds of alum 3d.;
for every hide, tanned, 1/2d.;
for every pound of silk 3d.;
for every piece of legis 4d.;
for every piece of English cloth 3d. ;
for every piece of Irish cloth, containing 12 yards, 1/2d.;
for every cwt. of iron 2d.;
for every bundle of iron rods 1d, ;
for every seme of sables 1d.;
for 100 stones of Spanish iron 4d.;
for every fotmel of lead 1/2d.;
for 100 pounds of scroff 1d.;
for all goods worth 12d. one farthing ;
for 1,000 spike nails 1d.;
for every frail of batry 8d.;
for every large kettle or dish 4d.;
for every 100 of batry 4d.;
for every ton of wine 6d.;
for every pipe of wine 3d.;
for every crannock of common malt 1d.;
for every crannock of best malt 2d.;
for every crannock of wheat 2d.;
for every seme of corn one halfpenny;
for every seme of butter 1d.;
for every last of butter 1d.;
for every stone of tallow 1/2d.;
for every mease (500) of herrings 1/2d.;
for every crannock of salt 1d.;
for every cranuock of barley, beans, and peas 1d.;
for every crannock of oats and other corn 1d.;
for every stone of wool 1d.;
for every sack of wool 4d.;
for every hide 1/2d. ;
for all hides, worth 12d., 1d.;
for 100 woolfells 1d.;
for 100 lambskins 2d.;
for other skins, worth 12d., 4d.;
for every horse, worth 40s. and upwards, 6d.;
for every pack horse, steer, bull, ox, and cow 1d.;
for every calf 1/4d.;
for every large hog 1d.;
for every sheep or goat 1/2d.;
for every small hog 1/2d.;
for 100 rabbit skins 2d.;
for 100 woolfells 3d.;
for every hundred dry fish one halfpenny;
for a horseload of fish 2d.;
for every salmon 1/4d.;
for 1,000 eels and merlings 1d.;
for every kind of timber and carts, small carts and boards, worth 4s., 1d.;
for every falcon or hawk 1d.;
for every tercel or tercelet 1/2d.;
for every millquern 1d.;
for two hand querns 1/4d.;
for 12 crannocks of coal 1d.;
for every stone of butter, hogs-lard, tallow, and cheese 1/2d.;
for every ton of honey 8d.;
for every pipe of salmon 18d.;
for every cwt. of glass 1d. ;
for every cwt. of scalphyn or other fish 1d.;
for 2,000 onions 1d.;
for 8 pounds of hemp and flax 1d.;
for 8 shanes of garlic 1/4d.;
for every new chest or box, and every 1,000 dishes and wooden platters 1/4d.;
for 100 lbs. of pitch or resin 1/2d.;
for 100 gads of steel 1/2d.;
for every kind of ware, worth 12d., 1/4d.;
for every kind of ware, worth 6s. 8d., 1/2d.;
for every kind of ware, worth 13s. 4d., 1d.;
to be expended on the murage and pavage of the town ; which patent of Richard II. was ratified and approved of by a patent of King Henry (IV.), 12 March, 3° of his reign
Crannock: in Irish, Cranog; a basket or hamper for holding corn, lined with the skin of a beast, and supposed to hold the produce of 17 sheaves of corn, and to be equal to a Bristol-barrel.—Ledwich. Crannock of wheat, 8 pecks; crannock of oats, 16 pecks.

Granted by Edward VI. (Regnal year 3).

Details of the petition which resulted in this grant can be seen at this link.

Primary Sources

Morrin, J. (ed), 1861, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the Reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth: 1514-1575 Vol. 1 p. 195-7 online copy
Lascelles, R. (ed), 1824, Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, 1152-1827 Vol. 1 (London) p. 17

Secondary Sources

Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 106-113 (citing LMPH I 17)

Comments

Presumably an overturning of the "Remembrances for Ireland." and return to murage as a vested right.

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