1341-01-07, Melrose

The like to the following, to wit : The sheriff of Angleseye. The sheriff of Meryounyth. To John de Ellerker, chamberlain of North Wales. Order upon pain of forfeiture to compel by arrest and amercement all sheriffs, bailiffs and ministers of the king who are charged to levy his debts in that bailiwick, to pay the money so received by them at the exchequer of Kaernarvan, at a term determined, and to cause the view of their accounts, arresting them upon the view of the accounts and upon the fine thereof for all arrears of the same, in consideration of the king's great need of money for paying his debts and for the defence of the realm, as the king is informed that divers sheriffs and other bailiffs and ministers there, deputed to levy such debts and who ought to pay the money at the said exchequer, delay to do so. By K and C.