Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1340

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: January 1340', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 5, 1339-1341, (London, 1901) pp. 319-320. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol5/pp319-320 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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January 1340

Jan. 1.
Langley.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of Boston. Order to permit Conrad Clippyng, Sifrid Spissenaghel, John de Wolde and John Clippyng, merchants of Almain, or their attorney, to lade 140 sacks of wool in that port in ships not ordained for the king's service, and take them to parts beyond the sea without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, as the king granted that they might do this in that port and in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull, because they paid 163l. 6s. 8d. to the king in part payment of the custom and subsidy, and the king pardoned them the residue, and now they have besought the king that they may take all the wool from the port of Boston, and the king has accorded this in consideration of the great aid they have afforded him in lending him money. The king has ordered the collectors in the port of Kyngeston to supersede the execution of the king's letters to permit the merchants to take any of the said wool from that port, and to send those letters to chancery without delay. By p.s.