1316-03-08, Clipston

To the keeper of the spiritualities of the archbishop of York and the and chapter of St. Peter's, York. Order to pay the money from the 12d. in the mark granted to the king by the clergy of that province to John de Insula, John de Donecastre, and Robert de Assehou, or two of them, to buy therewith munition for the town of Berwick-on-Tweed, and to give credence to what the said John, John, and Robert shall explain to them by word of mouth concerning the premises and the state of that town and of the men in it, the clergy of that province and of the province of Canterbury having granted in the late parliament at Lincoln that divers sums of money deposited in their churches out of the tenth for six years lately current should be paid to the king, to be repaid to them out of the next aid of the clergy granted to the king, in addition to the sums previously lent to the king out of the said tenth deposited in the custody of the sub-collectors in the diocese of York. By K.