1344-01-14, Westminster

Richard Sperlyng of Westhamme acknowledges that he owes to the and brethren of the house of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acon, 40/.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels co. Essex. Enrolment of indenture made between the king and Tidemannus de for himself and his fellows, merchants of Almain, showing that the said merchants have undertaken before the council to pay for . Parr 2. 489 king 4,400 florins descw to redeem the king's jewels lately deposited at and now in their charge at Brugges in Flandres and to make and delivery thereof, the king grants that those merchants may from the merchants of England, to whom he is bound for wool taken them at Durdraght, the king's letters obligatory for the same, to the of 4,000 marks, and they shall take mark of every sack laded the ports of London, Boston and Kyngeston upon Hull to pass to the until they are paid the 4,000 marks, so that they acquit the king of sum to the said merchants and restore to him the said letters; grants for himself and his fellows, that if the king pay the florins or the value thereof before the Purification in England or at together with the cost and expenses of keeping and carrying the as shall be found due by good account, then he will restore the said patent for the 4,000 marks and the writs thereupon and will deliver the jewels to the king or to his deputy in England or at Brugges, but carriage to England shall be at the king's risk, and if the 4,400 florins not paid, then the king grants that they shall retain the patent and payment of the 4 mark as aforesaid, and when they are satisfied for 4,400 florins thereby they shall be bound to make livery of the jewels delay. Dated at Westminster on 10 January, 18 Edward III. Enrolment of acknowledgment of receipt by Henry de Oxon ia], Richard Oxon ia], John de Notyngham, Alice atte Brugge, Claricia de Exon ia], de Exonfia], Petronilla Fourber, Eleanor de Sancto Paulo and Isabel Sancto Paulo, conversi, and the said Henry and Richard in the name of de Leycestr ia], and Juliana de Kendale, converse, deceased, from the king's exchequer by the hands of Sir John de Sancto Paulo, keeper of them their house, of 23/. 2s. 6d. in full payment of their wages for the time Richard de Ayremynne was keeper of that house, to wit until 7 June in the 13th year of the reign, on which day the king granted that custody to John, and of 35/. 14s. 3d. of the exchequer by the hands of John upon their wages from the said day until the date of these presents. Dated in the chapel of the conversi, London, 24 December, 18 Edward III.