1326-12-14, Kenilworth

Order date: inferred Regnal year 20 Edward II · Edward II · Close Rolls · Membrane 2

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Dated in source: “Dec. 14” · Place: Kenilworth (Warwickshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 2 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Order to send a clerk to Dover without delay with sufficient money to pay the freight of ships to the number of twenty, for the passage of the men of Almain and Hainault, who lately came into the realm in the company of the queen and Edward, the king's eldest son, and who are now about to return home at the king's charge, from the port of Dover to the port of Swyn in Flanders. [Fadera.] To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle.

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