To the K.’s beloved sovereign, bailiffs and worthy men of the town of Youghal.

The K. has considered how the town of Youghal and its neighbouring parts are impoverished and for the greater part destroyed by various rebels of the K. in co. Cork who continuously prey and kill the K.’s faithful people there, and also the good and advantageous place that the town daily holds for the K.’s faithful people. Earnestly wishing for the relief, improvement and fortification of that town, GRANT that the sovereign, bailiffs and worthy men of the town of Youghal, in person or through deputies appointed by them, may take, collect, receive and have the following customs from all and singular articles for sale coming to that town, both by land and by water, in aid of the murage and pavage of the said town and necessary other works for the two years from 1 March [1375] next remaining from a certain other grant formerly made by the K., and thereafter for a term of 20 years, viz.:

from each crannock of any kind of grain, malt, flour and salt for sale, ½d;
from each [crannock] of woad for sale, 2d;
from each crannock of Corker and symak for sale, 1d;
from each crannock [of tan] for sale, [¼d];
from 12 crannocks of any kind of coal for sale, 1d;
from 12 crannocks of lime for sale, ½d;
from [each horse] or mare, hobby, ox or cow for sale, 1d;
from 10 sheep, goats or pigs for sale, [1d];
from 5 bacon hogs for sale, ½d;
from 12 woollen fleeces for sale, ½d;
from each hide of horse or mare, hobby, ox or cow, [whether] fresh, [salted] or tanned for sale, ¼d;
from each hundredweight of skins of lambs, kids, hares, [foxes], cats and squirrels for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of wool-fells and skins of goats, stags, hinds, bucks or does for sale, 1d;
from each millstone for sale, 1d;
from 2 hand-mills for sale, ¼d;
from each large sack of wool for sale, 4d;
from each mease of herrings for sale, ¼d;
from 20 large fish for sale in a ship or boat, ½d;
from each horse-load of fish for sale, 1d;
from each load of [sea]-fish for sale, ¼d;
from 100 large fresh-water eels for sale, 1d;
from each salmon for sale, ¼d;
from each lamprey for sale, ¼d;
from each tun of wine [and ashes for sale, 4]d;
from each tun of honey for sale, 4d;
from each sum of honey for sale, 1d;
from each sum of [ashes] for sale, ½d;
from each sum of [cloth] for sale, ½d;
from each whole cloth of standard size [de assisa] for sale, 1d;
[from 20] ells of Irish cloth, both salewyche and worsted [worstede], for sale, ½d;
from 20 ells of linen cloth, English or overseas, for sale, ½d;
from 20 ells of canvas for sale, ¼d;
from 10 felt hats for sale, ½d;
from each carpet or coverlet for sale, ¼d;
from each cloth of silk or brocade for sale, ½d;
from each cap of muslin for sale, ½d;
from each Irish falding for sale, ¼d;
from each ship coming to the said town laden with articles for sale, 3d;
[from each] from each sum of cloth, ½d;
from each band of iron for sale, ½d;
from 100 gads of steel for sale, ½d;
from 100 large boards for sale, ¼d;
from each [1000] large [shingles] for sale, 1d;
from each 1000 [small] shingles for sale, ½d;
from 100 small boards for sale, ¼d;
from 100 pounds of pitch and resin for sale, ½d;
from each stone of tallow, oil, butter and cheese for sale, 1d;
from 10 pounds of shallot [Oygnenet] seeds for sale, ½d;
from 100 pounds of […] seeds for sale, 1d;
from 2,000 onions for sale, ¼d;
from 8 sheaves of garlic for sale, ¼d;
from each boat laden with brush-wood [busca], ½d;
from each boat laden with timber, 1d;
from each 1000 nails for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of horse-shoes and cart-clouts for sale, ½d;
from each 1000 [wooden] dishes [and plates] for sale, ½d;
from 12 [ropes for tackling] ships, ¼d;
from each 1000 hinges for sale, ¼d;
from each dozen cordwain [cordywan], corvesii and bascon’, ½d;
from each hundredweight of tin, [brass and copper], 2d;
from each hundredweight of scallops and dried fish for sale, 1d;
from 10 stone of hemp and flax for sale, [1d];
from 10 gallons of lamp oil for sale, ½d;
from 10 gallons of olive oil for ointment for sale, 1d;
from each hundredweight of coloured glass for sale, 1d;
from each hundredweight of white glass for sale, ½d;
from each hundredweight of avoirdupois for sale, 1d;
and from any kind of merchandise whatsoever worth 5s, or exceeding that value, both from merchandise specified above or other merchandise not specified for sale in the same town, 1d.
similarly, from any kind of merchandise whatsoever worth 2s, ½d; and worth 12d, ¼d.

The money derived from this is to be spent well and faithfully on the murage and pavage and other necessary works in the said town, and not otherwise; and, at the completion of that term, the customs shall cease and be removed entirely. And they are to take, collect, receive and have the said customs from all and singular articles for sale coming to the same town for 20 years beyond those two years remaining from his former grant, as aforesaid, from 1 March [1375] next coming, in the said form. Always providing that at the end of each year a faithful account of the money received by them is rendered before the venerable fathers the bp Cloyne, the dean of the cathedral of Cloyne and the parson of the said church, or one of them, year on year, and that the same auditors or one of them shall send the account before the T. and barons of the K.’s Ex. of Ire., distinctly and openly […].²

[William Windsor] governor [and keeper of Ire.]

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{1} RCH indicates that much of the item was illegible in 1828. It is clear from the transcript given in CPI that the damage was considerable. The grant is, however, sufficiently formulaic to allow the text to be reconstructed.
²CPI erroneously gives the date as 26 Jan. 1374.