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What is a murage?

What is a murage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
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It received its first grant of murage in 1261, yet foreign merchants complained in the following year that although murage was being collected they could see no wall-building.
In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there.
Records of such royal orders and licences for England, Ireland and Wales can be found in The Calendar of Patent Rolls, for example this grant of murage to Northampton.
The Hanse Merchants were freed from payment of murage on account of their engagement to keep Bishopsgate in order.
Money was collected at the gates for the repair of the roads, a charge which was in addition to murage.

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