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Membrane 22. |
April 6.
Havering atte Bower. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to
permit Bartholomew Thomasyn or his attorney to lade 3 sacks 32 cloves
of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, paying the
custom of ½ mark a sack due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation,
as the king lately ordered Richard Imberd and William de Braundeston,
then collectors of customs in that port, to permit Bartholomew to lade 40
sacks of the wool of the 15th and 16th years of the reign in co. Devon,
which the king assigned to him for certain sums of money which he lent
and delivered at the receipt of the exchequer, at the price of 8 marks the
sack, and to take them to the staple in the form aforesaid, and Bartholomew
took 36 sacks 20 cloves of the wool to the staple, as fully appears by the
certificate of Richard and William sent into chancery. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
March 4.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to
permit Oliver de Ingham or Robert Inkepenne, his attorney, to lade 2
sacks 36 cloves of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders,
after paying at the rate of ½ mark the sack for the custom, as the king
lately ordered Richard Imberd and William de Braundeston, then collectors
of customs in that port, to take to the staple in the form aforesaid 17½
sacks 10 cloves of those 76½ sacks of wool which the king assigned to
Oliver upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to
Gascony in the king's service, and Oliver caused 15 sacks of that wool to
be so taken and the remaining 2 sacks 36 cloves still remain to be laded,
as fully appears by the certificate of Richard and William sent out into
chancery. By C. |
March 14.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the new custom in the port of London. Order to
supersede the demand made upon William Casse, merchant of Gascony for
40d. a sack on 49 sacks 9 cloves 2½ pounds of the wool of the 15th year
of the reign, sold to him by the king at 6l. the sack, and to permit him to
take that wool to the parts to which it is to be taken, quit of the new
custom. By bill of the treasurer. |
April 8.
Havering atte Bower. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Simon de Breynesford to lade 35 sacks of
wool in that port and take them to the staple in parts beyond the sea without paying any subsidy thereon, receiving from him ½ mark a sack for the
custom, as the king sold to him 35 sacks of the wool of cos. Surrey and
Essex for the 15th and 16th years of the reign, to wit 20½ sacks of co.
Essex and 14½ sacks of co. Surrey, for a sum of money paid by Simon in
the wardrobe. By bill of the treasurer |
April 4.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to permit Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, or his attorney,
to lade in that port 76 sacks of the king's wool for the past year in co.
Norfolk, assigned to him upon the wages of himself and his men, lately
about to set out to parts beyond the sea, and take them to the staple in
Flanders after paying ½ mark a sack for the custom due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation. By C. |
April 18.
Westminster. |
To John del Wolde and Tidemannus de Lymbergh, to whom the king
granted a moiety of the subsidy of 40s. a sack, lately granted by the merchants
for a certain time. Order to supersede the demand made upon the bishop
of Sabina, cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, for 20s. a sack for part of
the subsidy granted to the king, and to permit him or his attorneys to take
60 sacks of wool to the staple in Flanders, as the king gave licence to the
bishop that he should buy and purvey every year 60 sacks of wool for the
clothing of his servants, and take them to parts beyond without paying
the custom due thereon, for life, and the king ordered the collectors of the
custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London to permit the
cardinal or his attorneys to take the 60 sacks from that port to the said
staple without paying the custom, and although the collectors are ready to
fulfil the order John and Tidemannus impede the passage of the wool until
20s. a sack are paid for part of the subsidy granted to them, whereupon the
cardinal has besought the king to provide a remedy. [Fœdera.] |
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The like to Francis Bandini and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, to whom
the king granted a moiety of the subsidy of 40s. a sack lately granted by the
merchants. [Ibid.] |
April 20.
Havering atte Bower. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth. Order not
to permit Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, to lade any of 76 sacks of wool
in that port by reason of any order under the exchequer seal, or to take
them to parts beyond the sea, although the king lately ordered them to
permit the earl so to take 76 sacks of the king's wool in co. Norfolk for the
past year upon the wages of himself and his men, about to set out to parts
beyond the sea, after paying the custom due thereon, because, at the earl's
request, the king has granted that he shall have the passage of that wool
in the port of London in the same form. By C. |
April 26.
Havering atte Bower. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Thomas de Bradeston or his attorney to lade
28 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders,
after paying ½ mark a sack thereon for the custom, notwithstanding the
proclamation that all wool assigned or sold to certain persons should be
taken out before the Purification last, as the king assigned to Thomas 28
sacks of the wool of the past year in co. Sussex, upon the wages of himself
and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's
service. By C. |
April 24.
Havering atte Bower. |
To the same. Order to permit William de Cusancia, the king's clerk, or
his attorney to lade in that port and take to the staple in Flanders 67 sacks
of the wool granted in the 15th and 16th years of the reign in co. Surrey,
after he has paid ½ mark a sack for the custom. By bill of the treasurer. |
April 24.
Havering atte Bower |
To the same. Order to permit William Fitz Waryn or his attorney to
lade 11¼ sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders,
after paying at the rate of ½ mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding
the said proclamation, as the king assigned to William 11¼ sacks of the
wool of co. Northampton for the 15th year of the reign, upon the wages of
himself and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the
king's service. |
