Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1339

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 5, 1339-1341. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1901.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1339', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 5, 1339-1341, (London, 1901) pp. 313-314. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol5/pp313-314 [accessed 24 April 2024]

October 1339

Membrane 9.
Oct. 10.
Windsor.		 To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit John de Wolde, Constantine Smythuson, John Clippyng, Wessellus de Losynghen, Hildebrand Etholt, John Sterrenbergh, Walter de Isplyngrode and Henry Gronopape, merchants of Almain, or their attorneys, to lade 160 sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea without paying the custom and subsidy, in accordance with the king's order to permit those merchants so to take 170 sacks and by another writ the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of Boston to permit them so to take 230 sacks from that port because they paid 2 marks a sack to William de la Pole, the king's merchant, for the king's use in parts beyond the sea, so that the king pardoned them the residue of the custom and subsidy, and they have besought the king that they may take 240 sacks from the port of Boston and 160 from the port of Kyngeston. By p.s.
To the collectors in the port of Boston. Like order 'mutatis mutandis' for 230 sacks. By the same writ.
To the sheriff of York. Like order 'mutatis mutandis' to permit the merchants to take 160 sacks from the port of Kyngeston.
By the same writ.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Like order 'mutatis mutandis' to permit the merchants to take 240 sacks from the port of Boston. By the same writ.
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