1338-10-12, Kennington

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow 5.4327. 10s. 63d. to the collectors of the old and new customs in the port of London, in their account, as they have paid that sum to Reginald de Conductu, as with the assent of the prelates, earls, barons, and others of the council, the king ordained that 30,000 sacks of wool which the king caused to be taken and bought in the realm by William de la Pole of Kyngeston upon Hull, Reginald and others whom the king convoked at Westminster on the morrow of St. James, in the 11th year of the reign, for a certain price agreed upon with the merchants should be sent to parts beyond the sea for the king's benefit, as is contained in an indenture made thereupon, and that 10,000 of the sacks should be laded in the port of London and the residue in the other ports, and that 20s. a sack of 3,500 sacks of the 10,000 should be received in the port of London before they were taken thence; and the king ordered the collectors of the old and new customs in the port of London to receive the said 20s. a sack on the 3,500 sacks on their departure from that port, and 40s. on each last of hides, and 20s. for every 300 wool-fells beyond the customs due by natives, according to the grant made by the merchants of the realm at Notyngham, in aid of the expenses incurred for the defence of the realm, to wit, of 40s. a last of hides and 20s. for every 300 wool-fells taken out of the realm beyond the custom due, and also of 20s. on each miliare of tin, and 6s. 8d. on each load of lead, and the king granted that the hides and fells should be taken out of the realm by native merchants, and the tin and lead by alien and native merchants, according to the ordinance and advice of William and Reginald, by a sufficient security, and they should receive the king's letters obligatory for the same under the seal called coket for payment to them upon certain days, and that the collectors should permit William and Reginald to take out the said 10,000 sacks, and other merchants to take the hides, fells, lead and tin, according to the form aforesaid, to parts beyond, and to cause the coket seal, which the king lately caused to be enclosed under the collectors seals, to be opened without delay, and one part thereof to be delivered to William and Reginald or their attorney, and the seal deputed for the collection of the new custom to be kept by the collectors under the seal of William and Reginald or their attorney, and to pay all the money received by them of the wool, hides and fells to William and Reginald or their attorneys from time to time, by indenture, in part satisfaction of a great sum in which they and the other merchants have undertaken to pay for the defence of the realm, and by virtue of this order the collectors paid 5,432/7. 10s. 6?d. to Reginald by indenture, as Reginald has acknowledged in chancery.