1343-02-24, Byfleet

be found carrying the wool he shall be arrested and imprisoned and wool forfeited, and that all this wool shall be carried to the common and to no other, and be there weighed and put into the ships, that the customers shall enter the ships and survey the stowage of wool there, inspecting each couche stowed there, that only weighed and wool be stowed there; also that no wool shall be found to be put the ships until these can be fully loaded, and if there are several ships to that they be not all loaded at once, but one at a time, so that the officers may know that he is not deceived, and because many ships not load fully in that port so that they may take full load in Humber on the sea of non-coketted and non-customed wool that comes to them boats and other vessels, it is ordained that no ship pass out of the port wool unless it is fully loaded so that other non-coketted wool cannot brought, and that no ships shall be freighted to take wool beyond the except in the presence of the customers, and the merchants who the ship and the master shall find surety that they will not allow wool to be laden in the ships unless it be lawfully coketted and weighed, hides and fells which are not customed, and that no one shall take in a more than a sack or 2 or 8 stones over, and no one shall have for a sack upon the price for the canvas and the cords to bind it 6 cloves; also that the merchants who have no sterlings ready shall payment in gold for the custom and subsidy on the wool according the price of wool current in Flanders. F'rench.