1338-12-12, Byfleet

To the collectors of customs in the port of Lynn. Order to deliver to William de la Pole, the king's serjeant, or to Thomas de Brome, clerk, his attorney, all the king's wool in that port, by indenture, in part satisfaction of 2,418 sacks, 10 stones of wool, which it was ordained by the king should be delivered to him, to wit, in the port of Lynn, and in the ports of Great Yarmouth and Ipswich, 3944 sacks, 74 stones, in the port of Boston, 102 sacks, 7 stones, in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull 572 sacks, stone, and in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 349 sacks, 8 stones; and to inform the king of the number of sacks before they have been taken to parts beyond the sea, as the king ordered William by writ of privy seal to bring him 2,900 sacks of the king's wool from England to parts beyond the sea with all possible speed, to sell them and make certain payments therewith, and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the ports of Boston, Kyngeston and Newcastle to deliver . to William the wool assigned to him there to be taken as aforesaid. The king wishes the wool assigned to William Dunort to be delivered to him. By C.