1339-03-05, Byfleet

To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port London. Order to cause all the issues of the customs and subsidy in port to be kept for the king's use and not to deliver them to William la Pole, the king's merchant, or to the merchants of the society of the until so ordered and to keep a part of the coket seal in that port is under William's seal, in their custody, so that it shall not be or anything sealed therewith save in the presence of William or his as the king granted William the customs and subsidy in that port, it has been ordained for certain causes brought before the council that the issues in that port shall be kept by the collectors and shall not be to William or the merchants to whom the king previously granted until the king has ordered otherwise and that the part of the coket in the possession of the collectors shall remain in their custody under seal of William or of John de la Pole his attorney. By C. To Peter Byne and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi. to deliver by indenture to William de la Pole, the king's merchant, half of the coket seal of the port of Southampton in their custody, by of an assignment upon the customs there which the king made tothem, hold until he is fully satisfied for the money which he has lent to the By K.