1338-12-23, Byfleet

Tothe collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Order permit the merchants of the society of the Bardi, to take 270 sacks wool, and those of the society of the Peruzzi to take 80 sacks from port to parts beyond the sea, without paying the custom and subsidy which the king wishes to be allowed in the sums paid by them him, as the king granted that they should so take, the Bardi 5,000 and the Peruzzi 2,000 sacks out of the realm, and afterwards that they should send 800 and 200 sacks respectively of that wool to parts beyond the sea, and that the provision of the residue should cease until further orders, and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of London to permit the merchants to take that wool to the said parts; and subsequently the king granted that they should take 600 beyond the said 1,000 sacks from the port of Boston; and now the merchants continuing their payments for the king's affairs, have besought him to grant them licence to take the residue of the said 7,000 sacks, and the king has granted that the merchants of the Bardi shall load 700 sacks in the port of Boston, 500 in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull, 700 in the port of Southampton, 270 in the port of Newcastle, and 1,600 in the port of London ; and that those of the society of the Peruzzi shall load 150 sacks in Boston, 250 in Kyngeston, 150 in Southampton, 80 in Newcastle, and 1,000 in London, to be taken to parts beyond the sea with the king's wool. The king has ordered the collectors in the said ports to permit the merchants to load the said quantity of wool in their respective ports.