1331-04-22, Wingham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. Adam de Lymbergh, the late king's constable of Bordeaux, has shewn the king that the king is indebted to him in 2,624/. Os 9d. for divers victuals provided by him for the late king's use in the duchy [of Aquitaine], as appears by a bill under the seal of Roger de Waltham, keeper of the said king's wardrobe, and in 510. 18s. 4d. sterling for his wages and expenses for the time when he was in the late king's service, and in 3681. 16s. 6d. and half a poges of petits Tournois for the wages of himself and certain clerks and divers armed men, horsemen and footmen, whom he held in the late king's services in the duchy by the order of Edmund, late earl of Kent, supplying the place of the said king there, and for certain expenses about certain works done by him by the earl's orders at La Reole (Reulam) at the time of its siege, and also for recompence for a horse lost in the said king's service, as appears by divers bills under the seal of John Travers, late constable of Bordeanx, and in 450 pounds of petits Tournois for recompence for certain of his horses lost in the said king's service in those parts, as appears by bills under the seal of Nicholas de Hugate, receiver of the said king's moneys and victuals in the said parts, and in 18J. sterling and 50 pounds of petits Tournois for recompeuce for two horses of his lost in the said king's service in those parts, as appears by a letter patent of Ralph Basset, the said king's senescial in Gascony, under the seal of the court of Gascony, in Adam's possession, for which sums he has not received any payment, and he has besought the king to order allowance to be made for these sums in his account at the exchequer for the time when he was constable or in other debts due from him to the king : the king therefore orders them to examine the bills and letter aforesaid, and to cause allowance to be made therefore to Adam as above for what they shall find to be due to him. By pet of C.