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" Licence to Crenellated 



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 ecclesiee) : some portion of 

 the walls, and all the gate-houses, still remain. 



In the eleventh year of Edward III. (1338), 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 III. (1359), to the "Rector 

 et Fratres 33 of Edynton (Edington), to fortify their house (mansum). 



In the forty-sixth year of Edward III. (1372) the " cives et probi 

 Homines civitatis Novse Sarum 33 obtained leave to fortify the city. 



In the fiftieth year of Edward III. (1376) Nicholaus Benton to 

 crenellate his house and walls at Fullardeston, Wilts. 



In the first year of Richard II. (1377) 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. 33 



The last record of a licence to fortify in Wiltshire is granted to 

 Johannes DominusdeLovell in the sixteenth year of Richard II, (1392) 



