1338-11-10, Byfleet

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 11

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Dated in source: “Nov. 10” · Place: Byfleet (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 11 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Essex and the other receivers of wool in that county. Order to deliver all the wool collected in that county to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi, by indenture, containing the number of sacks, as although the king ordered him to send the wool to London, yet he wishes to avoid the expenses of taking it so long a distance. By C. 17.

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