1335-05-11, Cowick

To the mayor, aldermen, sheriffs and community of the city of London. Order, if they wish to make fine with theking for the fifteenth on moveables, which they are bound to pay to the king, then to make that fine to their fellow citizens who are to attend the parliament at York on the morrow of Ascension next for that city, as the earls, barons, knights, freemen and communities of the realm granted a fifteenth of moveables and the citizens and burgesses granted a tenth of moveables in the parliament at Westminster on Monday after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross last, in aid of the king's expenses against the attacks of the Scots, By K. [ Federa.]