1338-03-15, Tower

To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the of London. Order to pay 400 marks for Easter and Michaelmas last to Henry de Lancastrfia], earl of Derby, or his attorney, accordance with the king's grant to him of 1,000 marks yearly from issues of the customs, to wit; 400 marks in the port of London, marks in the port of Boston and 300 marks in the port of Kyngestonfor life, and the king ordered the collectors to pay 400 to the earl or his attorney, and they returned that they had of the said customs wherewith to do this and that all the of the custom were delivered to William de la Pole and Reginald Conductu by the king's writ. Proviso that nothing of the money the custom of the king's wool in that port, soon to be sent to parts the seas, be paid to the earl or his attorney.