1335-05-16, Cowick

To the same. Whereas the king lately appointed his clerk, Edmund de to provide two ships of war in the port of Bristol from the there, and to cause those ships to be supplied and made ready with and men, well and sufficiently armed, as well as with other necessaries, to set out thence upon the sea; and the king caused 10/. from the treasury to be delivered to Edmund upon his expenses; the king orders the treasurer, barons and chamberlains to account with Edmund for the days in which he was in the said service, 5s. a day being allowed to him, and to cause what is right. to be done for the said final account, and if anything be owing to him by the king beyond the said 10/., then to cause that money to be paid to him from the treasury.