1338-10-08, Kennington

To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi to load 600 in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea without the custom and subsidy due thereon, having taken oath from mariners who take the wool that they will not take it to other except Brabant, as the king granted that the merchants of the of the Bardi should take 5,000 sacks and those of the Peruzzi and afterwards ordained that the Bardi should only send 800 the Peruzzi 200 of the said sacks, and that the sending of the should cease until further orders, and the king ordered the of customs in the port of London to permit them to take said wool, and now the king has granted that the merchants shall 600 sacks of that wool of the said 7,000 sacks and in addition to 1,000 sacks, in the port of Boston to be taken to the said parts. By the keeper and C.