1338-12-06, Byfleet

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 16

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Dated in source: “Dec. 6” · Place: Byfleet (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 16 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to supersede the exaction made on Dinus Forcetti and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi, for the custom of 3d. a pound on 452 pieces of tin taken by them from Cornwall to that port, to be taken thence to their own parts, if it shall be found that the exaction has been repeated, as the merchants have besought the king to order this to be done, as they paid the custom in Cornwall, and have coket therefor. By C.

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