1 gen 1510 anni - murage

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The toll or tax formerly levied for the building or maintenance of the walls of a town. It is recorded first in the statute of 1275 and features then in municipal accounts: 1439 <i> to suffer … free men and others to be quit of toll, stallage, chiminage, pontage, pavage, picage, murage and passage throughout the realm </i>, York (SS186/167). When Peter Symson of Leeds, a draper, enrolled as a freeman in 1447 it was on condition that he pay tolls and murage [<i> in solucione theolonii et muragii </i>] (SS96/167). In 1510 <i> The Murage of the Citie of Yorke </i> was itemised in the civic records and the fifty-two entries covered <i> ylka ferdell of mercerye wayre and of all other thyngs … that comys unto this Citie fro any contree </i> (YRS106/32-3).

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