1317-01-08, Clipston

the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer. Order to pay delay to the mayor, aldermen, and certain men of London, whose are contained in a roll at the exchequer, 1,000/. out of the issues of fifteenth and sixteenth and out of the ferms, arrears of accounts, and of issues of the realm, which sum they lent to the treasurer and at the instance of W. archbishop of Canterbury, J. bishop of and W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, J. elect of Ely, and the and Roger le Brabazon, and Hervey de Stanton and others of the council, whom the king in August last, at Lincoln, sent to London money and victuals for the Scotch war, when the said mayor, and men alone lent them money, which money the treasurer and promised to repay them before All Saints last past, the mayor, and men having greatly complained because the money has not repaid them. By K.