1338-05-28, Bury St. Edmunds

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 33

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Dated in source: “May 28” · Place: Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 33 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to receive said 250 pockets of wool from the takers and purveyors in that city, indenture, and deliver them to Simon Turgis and William de Preston, the king has appointed to receive them and other wool, by like and the king wishes the merchants to be charged with 40s. each sack for custom and subsidy, in part payment of the sums in he is bound to them. By K. & C.

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