1338-09-21, Kennington

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 20

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Dated in source: “Sept. 21” · Place: Kennington (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 20 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to receive 291 sarplars of the king's wool in the port of Boston and to cause it to be weighed and delivered to Robert de Watford, the king's clerk, by indentures, as the wool which was to be sent from Boston to the king to parts beyond the sea, has been brought to London for fear of the king's alien enemies. By C. 15.

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