Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1316 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1316', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 448-449. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp448-449 [accessed 18 April 2024]

December 1316



Dec. 23. Clipston.	To the rectores, consules, and community of the city of Florence. The king learns from the complaint of Burnetus Guillelmi and Nicholas Guillelmi of Luca, spicers (apothecariorum) of London, that whereas they were deputed to make certain provisions for the king's wardrobe, and paid for this purpose 200 marks sterling in London to the merchants of the society of the Cornekyns of Florence, in order that they might pay this money for Burnetus and Nicholas to certain merchants in the fairs of Troys la Chaude in Champagne, which sum Burnetus and Nicholas owed to the said merchants for divers things bought from them for the king's use, the said merchants of the society of the Cornekyns did not pay the money as they ought to have done and secretly left the kingdom with their goods and chattels; wherefore the king requests the rectores, consules, and community to hear what the bearer hereof shall tell them, and to compel the merchants of the aforesaid society, if they have been received in their city, to pay the money to the said merchants or their proctors in this behalf, together with their damages, certifying the king by the bearer of these presents of their proceedings.