1331-10-09, Westminster

The like for the following : William de Brumpton and Thomas le Clerk, burgesses of Bishop's Lenn, for 52s. Geoflrey Costyn and John Irp, burgesses of Ipswich, for 52s. Andrew de Wormenhale and John Culverd, burgesses of Oxford, for 52s. Henry le Canevacer and Ralph Beauchamp, citizens of Winchester, for 60s. Silvester de Trefuthken, burgess of Truri, for 46s. . Paar II. 413 John Skewys, burgess of Helleston, for 46s. Geoffrey de Norhampton and John le Plomer, burgesses of Northampton, for 52s. William Costantyn, burgess of Bedford, for 26s. Enrolment of indenture, witnessing that, on 15 November, Dyne Forset, Nicholas, Pieres Reyner, and Bartholomew de Barde, for themselves their fellows, merchants of the company of the Burde, in the presence the king and his chancellor and treasurer and other magnates of his undertook to find the king for the expenses of his household from December next until 1 October following 1,000 marks sterling each month, to be paid from time to time in the city of London to the of the wardrobe, for the maintenance and continuance of which the king and his council grant to the said merchants all the issues of customs of England, to wit the old custom of the port of London, old and new customs of the port of Boston, the old and new customs of Huil, the old and uew customs of the port of Lenne, the old new customs of the port of Neweastle-on-Tyne, the old and new customs Hertelpole, and the moiety of the old custom of the port of Southampton all the new customs to the sum of 500/. yearly, as the said custom to the king now for certain assignments made upon the said of Southampton, excepting the assignments of 1,000 marks to Sir de Henaud on the custom of London, and of 900 marks made on the of Boston to the count of Juliers. And the said merchants ought to the issues of the customs, by themselves or their attorneys, by the of the receivers of custom (eustmers) in the said places by indenture between them and the receivers of the customs. Moreover, as the merchants are now in arrears of a certain sum for the like service for past and for the said surcharge and other assignments made upon the the king grants that they may have 1,000/. of the first moneys of of the chamberlain or of other moneys, in discharge of the said service ; if they be not then fully paid what they have expended in the service of household, that they shall hold the said customs in manner aforesaid they be paid in full; and if it shall so be that they receive more than have expended, that the excess shall be allowed in the other debts that king owes to them, and if he do not owe them aught, then they shall restitution of the excess. And the king wills that they shall have in possession one leaf of the coket of the old custom, and that they shall in their keeping the seal of the new custom under the seal of the of custom in each of the places aforesaid. And the king wills the treasurer shall be certified in the times aforesaid at Easter, Midand Michaelmas of the sums of money that they have received of said customs. And the king will have regard to the said merchants as the sums that they have paid for the said service according to the time they shall have been served of the issues of the said customs, and also the expenses incurred by them in collecting the money of the said customs such manner that they shall consider themselves paid in reason. In order perform and accomplish the matters aforesaid, the king grants, by the of his council, that the merchants shall have at all times when such and so many letters and writs of his great and privy seals under the exchequer seal as shall be to their profit in the manner afore- ; and he wills that at all times when they wish to have tallies of the in discharge of the customs, they may have them, charging the of the wardrobe for the time being, or others who should be rendering letters patent of the wardrobe or of others who ought to charged with the sums. The king and the merchants have promised in faith to hold and perform all the matters aforesaid. To one part of this intendentare remaining in possession of the said merchants, the king's privy seal is put by his order, and the seal of Dyne, for himself and his fellows, is put to the other part. Dated at Wyndesore, as above. French.