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murage ; the last rates were on wine, corn, flour, honey, wood, and hides ; 

 Irish, English, and foreign cloths ; salt, iron, herrings, and other fish ; sheep, 

 oxen, pigs, cheese, butter, and lard. King Henry again gave a grant of rates 

 for miirage and repairing the castle and bridge, the quays, and ports ; 

 additional dues on skins of hares, rabbits, foxes, cats, and squirrels are named. 

 He further granted a charter to Drogheda " in Meath " ; it forbids anyone 

 to prevent merchandize coming to the borough, or a foreigner to sell wine 

 without permission of the burgesses. In 1250 Drogheda " next Uriel " joined 

 Dublin and other towns to protect their mutual liberties. Other murage 

 grants remain of Edward I in 1278 and 1295; the first includes ships of 100 

 hogsheads of wine or more, cloth, linen, and the other usual taxable goods, 

 The 1296 grant had unusual items, such as dues on apples, pimpernel or 

 chickweed, Irish jackets, rosin, basil, tin, stockfish, oil, and coloured glass, 

 but did not include wine. In 1281 five hogsheads of wine were taken from 

 the burgesses by writ ; the dues were granted to the Donati of Florence, 

 1284. Drogheda imported Dordogne wine in 1292, and exported corn to 

 Gascony in 1 297, and Scotland (with wine for the king's army in the latter 

 country), 1306. " Drogheda borough on the side next Uriel " sent wine to 

 Athlone, and made galleys for the king's service. The new custom brought 

 in large sums on both sides of the river.' 



Gal WAY. — The place was an early resort for ships, perhaps even being the 

 Ausoba of Ptolemy. Five years after its destruction by Torlogh O'Brien, 

 King of Mixnster, we hear of the ships of Dun Gaillimh in 1154.- In 1161 

 strange ships were seen in its harbour, and the fort took fire. It was a fishing- 

 village in 1170, but was fortified by the O'Flaherties in 1230. The de Burghs, 

 two years later, took, destroyed, and rebuilt it, making a castle, 1232. It was 

 walled under Edward I in 1278,' murage dues being granted, Ad, a tun on 

 wine, and dues on cloth, leather, salt, &c. It paid 12 tuns of wine yearly 

 (a little earlier) to Tadgh O'Brien of Tromra, Co. Clare, to keep its bay free 

 from pirates. It purchased wine from a Gascon, Domengun le Frauneeys, in 

 1281. The town rapidly prospered ; its customs (£20 to £40 about 1276) 

 rose to £200 by 1386. In 1282 the castle in the town of Galevy was 

 repaired.'' In 1306 Galway took 2s. on each hogshead of wine; but its 

 trade was seriously affected by the wars of Eichard de Clare with the O'Briens 

 of Thomond, 1310-1318. The Church of St. Nicholas was commenced in 



' Besides general authorilies, Gilbert's Documents^of the Anglo-N'ormiins, Dalton's " History 

 of Drogheda," " Giowth and Vicissitudes of Commeree" (John Yeates), p. 137. 



* Annals Loch Ci. 



^Galway murage, 36 Rep. D.K.R.Ir., p. 47, Walls towards the sea, and a tower beyond the 

 great gate, Pipe E. 



^Md., p. 65. 



