The Gatehouse website record of a grant of exemption for murage for

sovereign and commonalty of Kilkenny and Callan was granted an exemption from murage dated 18/11/1380.

Wording

Pro superiore et communitate villarum de Kilkenny et Callan.
Ricardus etceta majori et Ballivis Civitatis sue Waterford' salutem monstraverunt nobis superiores et comitates villarum de kilkenñ et Callan ut cum ville praedicte sint percelle dominii Comitis Gloucestr' Et licet omnes mercatores et alii infra dominium praedictem commorantes et residentes liberi et quieti esse deberent ac infra Civitatem nostram london' et alibi in regno nostro Angl' et terra nostra hibern liberi sint et quieti de quibuscumque custumis et muragio pro mercandisis suis emendis et vendendis solvendis quibusquidem libertatibus dicti superiores et comitates et predecessores sui a tempore fundacionum dictarum villarum ubilibet infra dicta regnum et terram nostram libere usi sunt et gavisi ut dicunt vos tamen mercatores dictarum villarum ad eandem Civitatem cu mercandisis suis ibidem emendis ad hujusmodi custumas et muragium vobus in Civitate praedicta pro dictis mercandisis suis solvend[]s sepius distringitis minus juste in ipsorum mercatorum grave dampnum ac contra vim et effectum libertatum suarum praedictarum ut asserunt unde nobus supplicarunt sibi de remedio providere Nos eorum supplicacioni in hac parte annuentes vobus mandamus quod ipsos superiores et comitates nec eorum aliquem contra tenorem dictarum libertatum suarum non molestetis in aliquo seu gravetis Et districcionem si quam ab eis aut aliquo eorum cntra vim et effectum dictrum libertatum suarum ceperitis eam sine dilatione restituatis eisdem T' praefacto locum tenente apud dublin xviii die Novembr'.
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18 Nov. 1380 Dublin
To the mayor and bailiffs of of the K.'s city of Waterford.
The sovereigns and commonalties of the towns of Kilkenny and Callan have shown to the K. that those towns are parcels of the lordship of the earl of Gloucester; and all merchants and others staying and residing within the said lordship ought to be quit, and are quit within the city of London and elsewhere within Eng. and Ire., from paying any customs or murage on merchandise bought and sold. They and their predecessors enjoyed these liberties from the time of the foundation of the said towns, as they say. Yet merchants coming with their merchandise to the city of Waterford are often distrained unjustly for their merchandise sold in the said city, and the merchandise bought there, for the payment of those customs and murage, to their great damage and contrary to the effect and force of their said liberties, as they assert. Considering the premises, they seek remedy. ORDER not to trouble them, or any others, contrary to the tenor of the said liberties.
Attested: Edmund Mortimer, e. March and Ulster, Lt
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Rex majori et ballivis civit' Waterf' (recit' monstrasse sibi superiores et comitates villar' de Kilk' et Callan quod ville praedicte sunt percelle dominii comitis Gloucestr'; et quod omnes mercatores et alii inf' illud dominium liberi esse deb' de custumis; quib' libertatib' dicti superores etc. a fundacione dictar' villar' usi sunt); mand' quod ipsos cont' tenorem dictar' libertatum non molest'. 18 Nov.

Granted by Richard II. (Regnal year 4). Granted at Dublin.

Primary Sources

Irish Record Commission, 1829-30, Chartae Privilegia et Immunitates p. 78 (Ref. E Rot. Pat. 4 Ric. II. m. 5.)
A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, c. 1244–1509, CR 4 Ric. III View CIRCLE record
Tresham, E. (ed), 1828, Rotulorum patentium et clausorum cancellariae Hiberniae calendarium (Dublin) p. 107 No. 26

Secondary Sources

1835, Reports from Commissioners Vol. 28 p. 451 online
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. 523 view online

Comments

A writ dated the 18th November, 4 Richard II., (a. D. 1380,) enrolled, (Rot. Pat. 4 Richard II. 4 Rich. II. m. 5,) and directed to the mayor, &c. of Waterford, recites that the sovereigns and commonalties of the towns of Callan and Kilkenny had shown to the King, that those towns were part of the lordship of the Earl of Gloucester, and that all merchants and others within that lordship ought to be free of customs and murage for their merchandise, which liberties the said sovereigns, &c. had used from the foundation of those towns; and it was commanded, that they should not be molested against the tenour of those liberties.

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