128 « Ticence to Crenellate.’’ 
his house (mansum) at Eton Meysi, Wilts. Eton Meysi is now 
Castle Eton—near Cricklade: the name probably was changed after 
the castle, for which the licence was obtained, was built, though the 
name of Meysi is still preserved in the adjoining parishes of Marston 
Maisey, and Hampton Meysey, in the county of Gloucester. 
The next grant is to Thomas West, in the first year of Edward 
III. (1327), to crenellate his house at “ Rugh Combe, Wilts,” now 
Ruscombe, a parish in a portion of Wiltshire, isolated in the county 
of Berks, north-east of Reading. The living of Rugh Combe was 
formerly a peculiar, under the jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury. 
In the same year licence was granted to the Dean and Chapter of 
Salisbury to fortify their Close (clausum ecclesiz) : some portion of 
the walls, and all the gate-houses, still remain. 
In the eleventh year of Edward III. (1538), Robertus Ep, Sarum 
(Wyville) obtained a grant to fortify his palace at Salisbury, his 
houses at Woodford, Pottern, Cannings, and Ramsbury, in Wilts, 
and others in Dorsetshire and Berkshire, as well as his house in 
“ Flet-Streete,”’ London. 
In the twenty-first year of Edward III. (1347), Humphry de 
Bohun, Earl of Hereford, had licences to fortify his mansions at 
Wockeseye (Oaksey), Uphavene (Upavon), and Sende (Seend), in 
Wilts, besides others in Essex, Middlesex, and Gloucester. 
The next grant is made, 33rd Edward ITI. (1359), to the “ Rector 
et Fratres ” of Edynton (Edington), to fortify their house (mansum). 
In the forty-sixth year of Edward III. (1372) the “ cives et probi 
Homines civitatis Nove Sarum ” obtained leave to fortify the city. 
In the fiftieth year of Edward III. (1876) Nicholaus Benton to 
crenellate his house and walls at Fullardeston, Wilts. 
In the first year of Richard II. (1877) Radulphus (Erghum) Ep. 
Sarum obtained licences to fortify his city, his palace, his houses at 
Bishops Woodford, Potterne, Cannings, Ramsbury, in the County 
of Wilts, and his houses at Sherborne, Chardstock, in Dorset, his 
house at Sunning, in Berkshire, and his house in “Fletstrete in 
Suburbio London,” 
The last record of a licence to fortify in Wiltshire is granted to 
Johannes Dominusde Lovell in the sixteenth year of Richard IT, (1392) 
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