1339-03-08, Byfleet

the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to cause all king's wool in that port to be laded in other ships than those of or Seland, and sent to the king to Andewerp, and that none of wool shall be unloaded except at Andewerp or delivered to others than whom the king has deputed to receive it; as the king appointed de Lymbergh and John de Langetoft to supervise all wool in that including that assigned to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi Peruzzi, William Dunort, William de la Pole and Master Paul de Florum, to cause the wool to be laded in that port and sent to the and to warn the said merchants and others to lade all the wool to them, with all speed, to be taken to the staple at Andewerp a certain term, and to be sent to the king, and if they refuse, to the wool to be laded in ships and sent to the king to be delivered those deputed for this. By p.s. [11782.] like to the collectors of customs in the following ports: The collectors in the port of Bristol, co. Gloucester, where Henry de Stretford is appointed. The collectors in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull, co. York, where William de Broclesby and William de Hastyng are appointed. The collectors in the ports of Lenne, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich, cos. Norfolk and Suffolk, where Richard du Chastel is appointed. The collectors in the port of Southampton, where Master Nicholas Haghmon and Thomas de Abyndon are appointed. The collectors in the port of Chichester, co. Sussex, where Thomas de Benton is appointed, The collectors in the port of Exeter, co. Devon, where Richard de Novo Castro subtus Lynam is appointed. The collectors in the port of Sandwich, where William de Clynton, earl of Huntyngdon, and William Moraunt are appointed. The collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London, where Matthew de Cantebrigg and John de Aulton are appointed.