1338-12-18, Byfleet

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 8

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Dated in source: “Dec. 18” · Place: Byfleet (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 8 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Master John de Offord, archdeacon of Ely, or his attorneys, to load 20 sacks of his own wool in that port and take it thence to the staple at Andewerp without paying custom and subsidy thereon, according to the king's order to them that John should so take that wool, paying 40s. on each sack for the custom and subsidy to William de Northwell, keeper of the wardrobe. By C.

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