List of licences to crenellate

Main article: Licence to crenellate

The following is a list of licences to crenellate, surviving in the records, issued from the 12th to 16th centuries, which was compiled by the amateur historian Philip Davis[1] and published in the Castle Studies Group Journal.[2] A few supposed licences sometimes quoted in other sources were questioned by Davis as dubious, deemed forgeries or were rejected entirely, but were still included in his list suitably qualified.

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1300s

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1400s

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1500s

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  1. Philip Davis stated on his web-site "Gatehouse Gazeteer": "I am not a professional historian and have no academic qualifications in the field so please take my site as the work of an amateur enthusiast. However, I do try to apply the highest academic standards to my work, including this site, and my research on licenses to crenellate has been published in the Castle Studies Group Journal"
  2. Davis, Philip (2006–2007), "English Licences to Crenellate: 1199-1567'" (PDF), The Castle Studies Group Journal 20: 226–245. The list does not mention at present which ones he felt dubious
  3. Quoted e.g. by Hull, Lise E. (2006) Britain's Medieval Castles. p.128
  4. Chope, History of the Manor of Hartland
  5. Licence for Aymer, {bishop} elect of Winchester, the king's brother, to strengthen the island of Portand, with stone and lime and to crenellate it like a castle, as he shall think most expedient. By King, in the presence of Edward his son, Henry son of the king of Almain, William de Valencia, John Maunsell, Hugh Bigod, Philip Lovel, Robert Walerand and others, and Peter de Monte Forti. (Calendar of Patent Rolls) Adomar Winton. electus possit kernellare ... insulam de ... Portland. (Turner and Parker)
  6. "Reject, duplicate entry by Parker"
  7. "Dubious ex Parker"
  8. Dubious ex Parker
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