borough of Andover (Andevor) was granted an exemption from murage dated 21/5/1599.
Wording
751 21 May 1599. Grant of incorporation (at the petition of Robert {Devereux}, earl of Essex, K.G., earl marshal of England, and high steward of the borough of Andevor, Hants, and on account that the borough is ancient and populous and a throughfare to the western parts of the kingdom, and that there are ambiguities in the previous grants), for the borough of Andevor. The previous grants are recited, as follows:
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(2) patent dated at Reading 1 May 6 John {1205}, to the said men of Andevor, of a merchant guild with quittance of toll, passage and custom, just as the burgesses of Winchester
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Confirmation also, of quittance from attendence at the sheriff's courts and from tolls, lastage, passage, pontage, pickage, stallage, pannage and murage.
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Without fine or fee in the hanaper. {mm. 21-27}
Granted by Elizabeth I. (Regnal year 41).
Primary Sources
Neal, S.R. and Leighton, C. (eds), 2009, Calendar of patent rolls 41 Elizabeth I (1598-1599) (Kew: List & Index Society 328) p. 137-8
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 13/01/2010. Last updated on 19/01/2013. First published online 6/01/2013.
