1341-01-10, Melrose

To John de Ellerker, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to postpone the payment of the wages and fees of the king's officers and ministers in North Wales, except where necessary and for the king's benefit, until further order, as the king cannot conyeniently satisfy them at present because of his debts to divers creditors in parts beyond the sea, and because he needs a great quantity of money for his affairs and the defence of the realm. It is his intention that the officers and ministers be satisfied afterwards when he can conveniently do so. He also orders the chamberlain to pay to the men in garrison in the castles their reasonable expenses upon the fees of their superiors. : By, Ka [Federa. . . Parr 3. 327 the justice of North Wales or to him who supplies his place. Proto seal or issue under his seals any writs or commissions or other which should be sealed under the king's seal, by reason of the office or of the exchequer or otherwise, or to intermeddle with any to that seal, as the king has learned that he causes judicial and originalia, commissions made in the king's court in that land, and of writs, processes and all other things dependant on such proin that court, which ought to be sealed with the seal deputed for the of that land, to be sealed with his seals. By K. the sheriff of Kaernarvan.