1338-10-20, Kennington

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 30

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Dated in source: “Oct. 20” · Place: Kennington (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 30 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to deliver to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence 1,000 sacks of the best wool of the king in that port, by indenture, by the view and testimony of Master John Wawayn and John de Westmancote, the king's clerks, whom he is sending to them for this cause, in accordance with the king's grant to the merchants to take 1,000 sacks to Andewerp, for a great sum lent by them to him. By the keeper and C.

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