1338-02-01, Westminster.tenth Have

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. to account with William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, whom the king lately sent to Holand, Seland and Almain, with other lieges, on his afiairs for the defence of the realm, granting him five marks daily for his wages and expenses, for the days spent by him in that service and for the expenses of his passages, the replacing of his horses lost in the service and payments made by him by the king's order for the said affairs; also for the wages of 200 mariners of four of the earl's ships, furnished for war, which he caused to be arrested with their masters and mariners for the king's service, and detained in the king's service at his wages at Southampton, the port of London and elsewhere; also for the wages of 102 Welshmen, of whom two were men-at-arms and 20 were hobelers on horse, whom the king caused to be elected by the earl in his lordship of Denebegh, at the king's wages, and brought to Southampton and afterwards to London, to stay there for some time and to return home, and further to do what the nature of the account requires. The king orders the treasurer and chamberlains to pay the earl what is found to be due to him, or the treasurer and barons to give him a competent assignment therefor. By K. & C, Feb. 8. To Richard de la Pole, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his in the port of Southampton.