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Membrane 21. |
Nov. 15.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Philip Barde, Dinus Forset and their fellows,
merchants of the society of the Bardi, to lade 131 sacks 21 cloves of wool
in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying ½ mark
the sack for the custom, as in part payment of divers sums which those
merchants lent to the king and have undertaken to pay for him, the king
assigned to them 295½ sacks 3 cloves 1½ pounds of the wool of co.
Gloucester, 70½ sacks of co. Hereford, 104½ sacks 3 pounds of wool of co.
Worcester, 269 sacks 13 cloves of co. Berks, 307 sacks 20½ cloves ½ pound
of co. Oxford, 167½ sacks 7½ cloves 1 pound of wool of co. Leicester,
184¾ sacks ½ pound of wool of co. Buckingham, and 31½ sacks 15 cloves
2½ pounds of the wool of Bristol, of the present year, to be received
by the hands of the collectors and receivers of wool in those counties
and town, and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of
Southampton to permit those merchants to take 131 sacks 21 cloves of that
wool from that port in the form aforesaid, and afterwards the king ordered
the said collectors to certify him how much of that wool had been taken
from that port, and to supersede the further execution of the said order,
and the merchants have laded nothing of those sacks in that port as fully
appears by the certificate of the said collectors, sent into chancery. |
Nov. 18.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to permit
Henry earl of Derby or his attorney to lade 108½ sacks 7½ cloves of wool
in that port, and take them to parts beyond the sea after paying ½ mark a
sack for the custom, as by the advice of the council the king assigned to
the earl 108½ sacks 7½ cloves of the wool of co. Stafford for the past year,
at 8l. the sack, to be received by the hands of the collectors and receivers of
wool in that county upon the wages of the earl and those of two hundred
men at arms, including the earl as one of five bannerets, fifty knights, a
hundred and forty-four squires and two hundred archers on horse, about to
set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service, to wit 8s. a day for the
earl, 4s. for each banneret, 2s. for each knight, 12d. for each squire and 6d.
for each archer, and the king has ordered the collectors of wool to deliver
to the earl 24 sacks 11 stones 3½ pounds of the said wool and the receivers
to deliver 84 sacks 5½ stones thereof to him, by indenture. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
Nov. 15.
Kennington. |
To the same. Order to permit William de la Tape, merchant of
Morlaunz or his attorney to lade 13 sacks 13 cloves of wool in that port,
packed in 8 sarplars, assigned to him in full payment of a certain sum in
which the king is bound to him for four great horses bought from him for
the king's use, and take them to Flanders, after paying ½ mark a sack for
the custom. By bill of the treasurer. |
Nov. 20.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to permit Henry Galeys, attorney of Robert de Artoys,
deceased it is said, to lade 11¼ sacks of those 158 sacks of wool which the
king assigned to Robert for his wages and those of certain men at arms
and archers about to set out with him to Britanny in the king's service, and
take them to parts beyond the sea after paying ½ mark a sack for the custom,
without finding any security in accordance with the ordinance. [Fœdera.] |
Nov. 18.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to
permit Bartholomew Thomasyn, spicer of London, or his attorney to lade 40
sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after
paying ½ mark a sack for the custom, as for certain sums which he lent to
the king and delivered at the receipt of the exchequer, the king assigned to
him 40 sacks of the wool of co. Devon for the past and present years, at 8
marks the sack, to be taken to Flanders. By bill of the treasurer. |
Nov. 28.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to permit Ralph de Ufford or his attorney to lade 17 sacks
of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying
the custom of ½ mark the sack, as the king has assigned to him 17 sacks of
the 264 sacks of wool apportioned in co. Kent for the past year, upon his
wages and those of his men about to set out in the king's service to parts
beyond the sea, to wit at 6l. the sack for the wool and the subsidy thereof. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
Nov. 22.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to
permit Oliver de Ingham or Robert Inkepenne, his attorney, to lade 17½
sacks, 10 cloves of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea,
after paying the custom of ½ mark the sack, without finding security of a
plate of silver for each sack in accordance with the ordinance, as the king
lately assigned to Oliver 76½ sacks of wool for the present year apportioned
in co. Southampton, upon his wages and those of his men, then about to
set out in the king's service to Gascony, to wit, at 6l. the sack, and Oliver
laded 44 sacks, 2 cloves of the said wool in that port and 14 sacks 40
cloves in the port of London to be taken to the said parts. |
Nov. 10.
Kennington. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a certain great engine which the
king caused to be laded in a ship at the Tower of London, to be taken to
the king to parts beyond the sea and afterwards to be landed at Sandwich,
to go to the Tower at the king's cost, without delay, to be delivered by
indenture to the constable or to him who supplies his place, whom the
king has ordered to receive the engine from the sheriff and to keep it safely. |
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[Fœdera.] By the keeper and C. |
Nov. 30.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Ralph de Stafford or John Geffrey his
attorney or John's deputies to lade 5 sacks of wool in that port and take
them to parts beyond the sea, after paying ½ mark a sack for the custom,
quit of finding the security of a plate of silver for each sack in accordance
with the ordinance, as the king assigned to Ralph 57 sacks of the wool of
co. Stafford for the present year, at 12 marks the sack beyond the custom
of ½ mark upon his wages and those of fifty men at arms and fifty archers
on horse who stayed with him in parts beyond the sea in the king's service,
and the king ordered the collectors to permit Ralph to take 37 of those
sacks in the form aforesaid. By C. |
Oct. 26.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Sandwich. The king sends
to them Robert de Warthecop, his clerk, with the seal called coket, deputed
in that port, for lading in that port and taking to Flanders 160 of the 300
sacks of wool of co. Kent for the present year assigned to Reymund Seguyn,
the king's butler, upon the expenses of his office, ordering them, when the
wool has been weighed and coketted and ½ mark a sack has been received
from Reymund or his attorney for the custom, to cause the seal to be
opened and letters patent of coket for the 160 sacks to be made and
delivered and to permit Reymund or his attorney to lade the wool in that
port and take it to Flanders, without paying any subsidy thereon, and to
cause the seal to be replaced in its bag, the bag to be sealed and delivered
to Robert, to be taken to the king as has been fully enjoined upon him. |
Dec. 6.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or his
attorney to lade 212 sacks 12 cloves of wool in that port and take them to
Flanders, after paying ½ mark a sack for the custom, without paying any
subsidy or finding security of silver plate, as Reymund has laded in that
port 87 sacks 40 cloves of the 160 sacks which the king ordered to be taken
to Flanders of the 300 sacks of wool of co. Kent for the present year
assigned to Reymund upon the expenses of his office, to be laded in the
port of Sandwich, as is found by the certificate of Robert de Warthecop,
sometime keeper of the seal called 'coket' deputed in the port of Sandwich
and of the collectors of customs there, sent into chancery by the king's
order. |
Dec. 3.
Kennington. |
To the same. Order to permit Robert de Inkepen, attorney of William
de Cusancia, the treasurer, to lade 35 sacks of wool in that port and take
them to parts beyond the sea without paying the custom and subsidy thereon
or finding security of silver plate, as the king ordered William de Gategang,
keeper of the coket seal in the port of Southampton, and the collectors of
customs there to permit Robert to take 135 sacks of the wool of co. Dorset
of the 240 sacks lately assigned to William de Edyngton, keeper of the
wardrobe, upon the expenses of the household, and which the treasurer is
about to send to Flanders for the said keeper, from that port to the staple
in Flanders in the form aforesaid, and Robert has not yet laded any of
those sacks in the port of Southampton or taken them to parts beyond the
sea, as fully appears by the certificate of the collectors of customs in the
port of Southampton, sent into chancery. The king has ordered the
collectors of customs in the port of Southampton to permit Robert or his
attorneys to take the remaining 100 sacks from that port in the form
aforesaid. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the collectors of customs in the port of
Southampton. |
Dec. 1.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit 100 sacks of wool to be laded in that port
by the merchants whom Master Paul de Monte Florum shall depute in his
place and taken to Flanders after ½ mark a sack has been paid for the
custom, in part passage of 600 sacks assigned to Paul with the assent of
the council for paying 1,000l. upon the redemption of certain of the
king's jewels, and Paul has now sold the passage of 360 of the said 600
sacks to certain merchants, as he says, for 2½ marks each beyond the custom
of ½ mark a sack due thereon. The king has ordered the collectors of
customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull and the collectors of customs
in the port of Boston to permit 60 sacks and 200 sacks of wool to be
similarly laded in these ports and taken to Flanders. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the collectors of customs in the ports of
Kyngeston and Boston. |
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Membrane 20. |
Dec. 3.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to permit Matthew Canaceon or his attorney to lade
73 sacks 17⅓ cloves of wool in that port and take them to Flanders after
paying ½ mark a sack for the custom, without finding security of silver
plate according to the ordinance, and not to permit him to take any wool
by reason of the king's first writ, as, with the advice of the council, the
king assigned to Matthew 73 sacks 17⅓ cloves of the wool in co. Sussex
for the present year at 6l. the sack, in full payment of 1,000l. ordained
for him in part payment of divers debts in which the king was bound to
him, and the king ordered the collectors to permit Matthew to take those
73 sacks 17⅓ cloves to Flanders in the form aforesaid, and afterwards the
king ordered the collectors to certify him whether Matthew had taken any
of the said wool, and they returned that they had received no writ for
Matthew to lade wool assigned to him and that he has not hitherto laded
any. By bill of the treasurer. |
Dec. 5.
Kennington. |
To the same. Order not to permit any wool which is not of the 30,000
sacks granted to the king or of the 600 sacks specially reserved to the king
to cross without paying the subsidy of 40s. a sack, 40s. on every 300 woolfells and 4l. on each last of hides taken out of the realm, and to show to
Nicholas Bartholomei and his fellows, merchants of Luca, before any wool,
hides or wool-fells cross from that port, the writs and other warrants for the
passage thereof and to deliver to them a copy of the same if they wish it, and
to cause the coket seal deputed in that port to be kept under the seals of the
merchants in the custody of the collectors and to permit them to survey and
control all the weighing of wool in that port, so that there be no deception
by false weighing, upon the payment of the custom and the subsidy, as for
certain great sums which the merchants lent to the king in his great need,
he assigned to them a moiety of the said subsidy for the present year, beyond
the custom due, to be received by the hands of the collectors of customs in
the ports of lading, until Midsummer next, unless they are satisfied for
those sums in the mean time, and the king wishes the said seal to be kept
as aforesaid so long as the merchants receive the subsidy, and the merchants
have informed the king that a quantity of wool which is not of the 30,000
or the 600 sacks is taken out of this port without paying the subsidy,
contrary to the form of the king's grant. By the keeper and C. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the following ports, to wit:— |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Boston. |
Nov. 10.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Thomas Palmere of Winchester or his attorneys
to lade 24 sacks 2 cloves of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond
the sea, after paying ½ mark a sack for the custom, as the king sold to him
300 sacks of the wool of co. Sussex for the past year, at 12 marks beyond
the custom, and afterwards the king ordered William de Gategang, keeper
of a part of the coket seal in the port of Southampton, and the collectors
of customs there to permit Thomas to take 24 sacks 2 cloves of that wool to
those parts in the form aforesaid, and Thomas has not laded any of the said
wool in the port of Southampton, as fully appears by the certificate of the
collectors of customs there sent into chancery. By C. |
Dec. 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order
as at another time to permit 60 sacks of wool to be laded in that port by
merchants deputed by Master Paul de Monte Florum and taken to Flanders,
after payment of ½ mark a sack for the custom, as part of the passage of
600 sacks assigned to Paul for payment of 1,000l. for the redemption of
certain of the queen's jewels [as at page 593 above], causing letters for the
passage of the 60 sacks to be made under one part of the coket seal in that
port if the merchants of Almain refuse to affix the other part which is in
their custody, as the king has learned that by reason of certain agreements
between the king and certain merchants to whom he lately granted one
part of the said seal to be kept for having the subsidy of wool for a certain
time, the collectors have not hitherto cared to permit those sacks to cross,
in contempt of the king and to the retarding of his affairs, especially as the
passage of the 600 sacks was reserved to him in the making of the
agreement. The king has ordered the collectors of customs in the ports of
London and Boston to permit 100 and 200 sacks of wool respectively to
be laded in those ports and taken to Flanders in the form aforesaid. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
Dec. 7.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to pay nothing of the subsidy last granted in the present
year by the merchants to Queen Isabella, by reason of the king's order to
them to pay her 250l. for Michaelmas last, in accordance with the king's
grant to her of 500l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of that
custom, because that grant does not extend to that last subsidy, as fully
appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery. By C. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Boston. |
Dec. 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to permit Master Bernard de Cistr[e], general papal
nuncio in England, or his attorneys to lade 170 sacks of wool in that port
and take them to parts beyond the sea after paying ½ mark a sack for the
custom, as in part payment of 2,000l. which the king granted to the
merchants of the society of the Peruzzi, in part satisfaction for sums
anciently due to them, the king assigned to them with the assent of his
council, 230 sacks of his wool of co. Somerset for the present year, at 8l.
the sack, beyond the custom of ½ mark, and the merchants assigned 170
sacks thereof to Bernard for certain moneys in which they were bound to
him, to be received by the hands of the assessors, collectors and receivers
of wool in that county, by indenture, and Bernard has not hitherto obtained
a passage of the said wool or any part thereof, as he says. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
