1302-08-28, Kempton

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the citizens of the city of London, among the other payments that they made in part payment of the 20,000 marks by which the former citizens made fine with the late king for the trespass that they were said to have committed against him during the time of the war, by the said king's order to divers men and for which the king ordered allowance to be made to them, made divers other payments to divers men by the late king's orders, and they have besought the king to cause allowance to be made to them therefor: the king orders the treasurer and barons to hear the proofs (racionibus) of the citizens concerning the payments, and to search the accounts of all those to whom the citizens assert that they haye made payments, of whose