1328-10-24, Salisbury

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Richard de Ja Pole and William his brother have shewn the king that they have received divers sums of money at the exchequer and from the king's wardrobe and from the issues of the customs by assignment made to them, in order to purvey wines and other things for the king's use, for which sums they have not yet fully accounted, and they lent to the king divers sums for the expenses of his heusehold, as they promised (assumpserunt) under a certain form at the instance of the treasurer and barons, and for the expedition of divers affairs of the king's, and they have prayed the king to cause account to be made with them for all the receipts, payments, and expenses aforesaid, and to order satisfaction to be made to them for what shall be found due to them: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to account with them or their attorney to be appointed for this purpose by their letters patent, which attorney the king wills shall be admitted for this purpose, for all the receipts, payments, and expenses aforesaid, and to cause to be done what pertains to the final account, and to cause satisfaction to be made to them by assignment or payment for any surplus there may be at the end of the account. By C.