Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1339

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 4, 1337-1339. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1339', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 4, 1337-1339, (London, 1900) pp. 607. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol4/p607 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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January 1339

Jan. 20.
Berkhamp-stead.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of London. Whereas the king has granted to the merchants of the Bardi and Peruzzi for the great sums lent to him, 3,000 and 2,000 sacks of his wool, respectively, and he wishes them to have 226 sacks, 6½ stones of co. Buckingham, and the merchants have besought the king to order recompence to be made to them for 170 sacks, and 20 cloves of that wool lent to the king to make up a sum of wool reserved for the king in the port of London, of the king's wool of cos. Oxford and Berks, the king orders the collectors to deliver wool to that value to the merchants, if this is so. By C.
Jan. 20.
Windsor.
To the same. Whereas the king granted the said merchants permission to take a great quantity of wool to parts beyond the sea, without paying the custom and subsidy, and they have besought the king that, whereas they caused certain wool to be loaded in divers ships in the port of Boston to be taken to the said parts, and the ships have come to London for fear of pirates, and their wool is unloaded and is of greater weight than before through moisture, he will grant the wool to be loaded at London at the same weight as it had at Boston; the king therefore orders the collectors to view the letters of coket by which the wool was laded at Boston, and to permit the merchants to take the wool to the said parts by the weight given at Boston, informing the king of the number of sacks brought to London and laded there. By C.