1338-12-23, Byfleet

To the receivers of wool and to the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Order to deliver to Nicholas Usus Maris, constable of Bordeaux, or to Anthony Bache, his attorney, 90 sacks of the king's wool, by indenture, in part satisfaction of 900 sacks which the king granted to him for his affairs, and to permit him to take the wool to Gascony without paying thereon the custom and subsidy due, which the king wishes to be allowed in part satisfaction of the sums due by him to Nicholas, as the king ordered the collectors of customs in the ports of London and Southampton to permit Nicholas to take 1,000 sacks to parts beyond [as at page 439 above , and he has surrendered the writs to be cancelled, beseeching the king to cause him to be satisfied for the said 1,000 sacks. The king has ordered the receivers in cos. Oxford and Berks to deliver 30 sacks of wool each of the increment of the king's wool in those counties, to Nicholas or his attorney, without delay, in part satisfaction of the 1,000 sacks. By C.