1341-01-01, Newcastle-on- apes

To the receivers of wool in co. Kent. Order upon pain of forfeiture to deliver by indenture to the deputy of William de Cusancia the treasurer, and to John le Clerk, John Weybon and Henry le Vynder, serjeants of the duke of Brabant, all the wool in their custody, until the duke is satisfied for 400 sacks of wool of 440 sacks, as in part satisfaction of certain sums in which he is bound to the duke, the king assigned to him 700 sacks of wool to be received of the first wool in that county, and afterwards, because the duke could not be satisfied for 700 sacks there, the king ordered 260 sacks of the wool in co. Dorset to be delivered to him in part satisfaction thereof, and ordered the said receivers to deliver to the duke 400 sacks of wool and the remaining 40 sacks in money at 9 marks the sack, which they haye not hitherto cared to do, whereat the king is much angered, and unless the duke is quickly satisfied great damage may accrue to the king, wherefor he ordered William to depute a fit person to receive the wool from the receiver and take it to the staple in Flanders with the duke's serjeants and deliver it to the merchants deputed to sell the king's wool there, and to deliver the money to the receiver of the king's money in Flanders for the king's use. The king wishes the duke to be satisfied for the remaining 40 sacks in money, at 9 marks the sack. By Cra Mandate in pursuance to William de Cusancia, the treasurer. By C.