1277-04-11, Roger Orford

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert de Offord, justiciary of Ireland, to have respite until Michaelmas next for all debts due from him for the time when he was constable of the castle of Orford, 12, To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately granted to William Giffard that he might render the debts due from him to the exchequer at the rate of 201, yearly, the king has granted to him that he shall pay at the Michaelmas exchequer the 10/. that he ought to have paid at the quinzaine of Easter last, on condition that he render 201. then, to wit the said 102. and the 10/. due at the quinzaine of Michaelmas: the king orders the barons to cause William to have these terms. To Robert de Offord, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas Bonasius Bonant, merchant of Florence, whom the king lately appointed keeper of the new custom of wool in Ireland, has been slain in Ireland by malefactors and disturbers of the king's peace, and the justiciary caused the goods and other wares of Bonasius and his fellows in Ireland to be arrested in the king's name because Bonasius had not rendered his account of the receipt of the issues of the custom: the king orders the justiciary to cause all the goods and chattels to be delivered to the merchants, the fellows of Bonasius, upon their finding security to render account of the custom for the time when Bonasius was keeper thereof to the king at the exchequer of Dublin at the quinzaine of Midsummer next, and to satisfy the king for any arrears of the custom during the time aforesaid.