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Carrick, co. Tip, burned by rebels.
Fairs to be held there.
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XXXVII. Also, at the prayer of the provost and commons of the town of Carrickmagrittin in the county of Tipperary, That whereas the said town is from day to day destroyed by English rebels, and in these fourteen years the said town was twice entirely burned, excepting only the church and the castle, and all their goods taken, and for the greatest part all the people taken prisoners, and afterwards a general pillage of them made four times, and all this was done by English rebels; and the said town is a market town and one-half thereof is well walled, and the people of the said town are so impoverished that they cannot build the walls of the other part of the said town, and it will be great refreshment and relief to all the liege people of the King of the county of Kilkenny, the county of Tipperary, and the county of Waterford, that the said town shall be well walled for all men that go from Waterford to Clonmel, Cashel, or Fethard, who can have no resting place or lodging in twenty miles of road except only at the said town of Carrick; and it is situated very nearly half way between all the said roads, as being ten miles or more from each town, and yet with small support the said town may be relieved. Whereupon the premises considered, It is ordained by authority of the said parliament that the said provost and commons may have power to hold a fair twice every year in the said town, that is to say, at every feast of Saint Barnabas the Apostle, and at every feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, the fairs to commence the vigil of each of the said feasts, and so to continue each fair three days and three nights following. And that all the men that come to the said fairs pay no custom at the said fairs, save only to pray for the King, and for the estate of the Duke of York, and for the souls of their noble progenitors. And that all men, save only those whom the King has heretofore made free, or who hereafter shall be made free, who carry any merchandise any other time of the year save in time of the said fairs into the said town, or pass with any merchandise within the franchise of the said town by water or by land, shall pay to the said provost and commons custom for all manner of things that they bring, drive or carry within the said franchise, if it be to sell, as it has been from ancient time accustomed. And that the said town from henceforward be free for ever from all manner of bonaght, kernes and other charges which are used or ought to be used in the said county, save only the subsidies which shall be granted by the parliaments or great councils of our lord the King.
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