1343-04-06, Havering Atte Bower

To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to atte permit Bartholomew Thomasyn or his attorney to lade 3 sacks 82 cloves of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, paying the custom of mark a sack due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king lately ordered Richard Imberd and William de Braundeston, then collectors of customs in that port, to permit Bartholomew to lade 40 sacks of the wool of the 15th and 16th years of the reign in co. Devon, which the king assigned to him for certain sums of money which he lent and delivered at the receipt of the exchequer, at the price of 8 marks the sack, and to take them to the staple in the form aforesaid, and Bartholomew took 86 sacks 20 cloves of the wool to the staple, as fully appears by the certificate of Richard and William sent into chancery. By bill of the treasurer. 4.