"Maior et Communitas ... villam de Wynchelse ... firmare, kernellare, turellare et batellare [they may enclose, crenellate, entower, and embattle, the said wall, and may enclose with the said foss, the said town so fortified, entowered, crenellated, and embattled, we are earnestly desirous that those places which are adapted for fortification should be made strong for the security and defence of the people subject to us, and for the terror and repulse of our enemies, and is to all and singular our lieges, and our friends passing at sea by there, as it were, the key, refuge and guard of those parts against the tempestuousness of the sea, and the insults of our said enemies...]"
Granted at Westminster, by King.
Parker footnotes "The entry states that the town had been laid out too large for its population, and permits a smaller line of defence to be fortified.
Original source is
(In fact, the original source given is usually a transcription/translation of what are precious medieval documents not readily availably. It should be noted that these transcription/translations often date to the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and that unwitting bias of transcribers may affect the translation. Care should also be taken to avoid giving modern meaning to the medieval use of certain stock words and terms.)
Significant later source are;
More details about licences to crenellate can be found here.
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