1342-04-16, John Westminster

Order to permit the merchants of the the Bardi to lade in that port and take away therefrom 50 sacks in their name, paying 10s. a sack for the custom for the use of Clippyng and his fellows, merchants of Almain, to whom the king the customs and subsidies in all the ports of the realm, as the king the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton to permit the of the society of the Peruzzi so to take 220 sacks of wool of 1,800 to them [as at page 161 above], and those merchants have now the king to provide a remedy, as they could not find enough old make up the number of sacks, and they are hindered from lading away the wool by reason of the last agreement and of divers and the king granted that they should buy both new and old make up the number and take it out, and the merchants of the have granted that the merchants of the Bardi shall take out the to them, paying 10s. a sack to the said merchants of Almain, 30s. a sack being allowed to the merchants of the Bardi and in part satisfaction of the debts in which the king is bound to the merchants of the Peruzzi took 80 sacks 28 cloves of the 220 sacks from the port of Southampton, as is found by the certificate of the collectors of customs in that port sent into chancery, and the merchants of the Bardi have besought the king to grant them a passage in the port of Boston for 50 sacks of the 139 sacks 24 cloves of wool remaining: The king has ordered the collectors of customs in the port ot Southampton not to permit the merchants of the Peruzzi to lade any of the . said wool in that port, but the king has granted to the merchants of the Bardi a like passage in divers ports of the realm for the remaining 89 sacks 24 cloves of wool. By p.s, The like to William de Kynyardby, keeper of part of the coket seal in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull which used to remain in the possession of the collectors of customs there, and to the said collectors, for 50 sacks of the said 139 sacks 24 cloves of wool. By the same writ. j To William de Gategang, keeper of part of the coket seal in the port of Southampton which used to remain in the possession of the collectors of customs there, and to the said collectors. Like order for the remaining 39 sacks 24 cloves of wool. By the same writ. : 20.