1344-03-08, Byfleet

Order to cause all wool in the port of Boston reserved for the king's use, which has not yet been sent across the sea, to be taken to those parts in ships other than those of Flanders and Selard and sent to the king at Andewerp, so that it shall not be discharged at any other place, as the king appointed Adam and John to survey all such wool and the wool assigned to the merchants of the society of the Bardi, Wilham Dunort, William de la Pole and Master Paul de Monte Florum in that port and elsewhere in co. Lincoln and to cause the wool to be laden and sent to the king, and to warn the said merchants and the others to cause all the wool assigned to them to be sent with all speed to the staple at Andewerp within a certain time, and to load and send away that wool if the merchants and others refused to do this. By p.s. [11782.) The like to the following appointed to swrvey such wool in the followmg ports and counties : Henry de Stretford, in the port of Bristol in co, Gloucester. William de Brokelesby and Ralph de Hastyng, in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull in co. York. Thomas do Benton in the port of Chichester in co, Sussex. William de Clynton earl of Huntyngdon and William Moraunt in the port of Sandwich in co, Kent. 138 EDWARD III. Parr 1. 59 Richard du Chastel in the ports of Lenn, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Nicholas Haghmon and Thomas de Abyndon in the port of Southampton in co. Southampton. Richard de Novo Castro subtus Lynam in the port of Lxeier in co. Devon. Matthew de Cantebrigg and John de Aulton in the city of London.