1344-05-10, Berkhamp

To the taxers and collectors in the city of London of the triennial tenth fifteenth lately granted by the community of the realm. Order to John de Flete, keeper of the exchanges of London and Canterbury, the workmen, moneyers and other ministers of these exchanges, to have until Michaelmas next, for their quotas, so that the king may cause to be done to them when he has been more fully informed, the late king on 1 March in the second year of his reign by letters, which the king has confirmed, that the said and others should be quit of all contributions while they were their office and if they granted anything of their free will, it should be and assessed by the keepers, and the keepers themselves should be by the barons of the exchequer, and now the king has learned John that the collectors have assessed them for the tenth and fifteenth propose to levy divers sums of money of them for that cause. By the keeper and C.