1344-01-09, Westminster

To Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, admiral of the fieet from the mouth of the Thames towards the North. Order to take-information upon the number of ships, fluvi, barges and other vessels, capable of transporting men and horses across the sea, in the ports and places in his jurisdiction, and of their burthen and owners, and to certify the king in chancery thereupon and upon the names of the lords and masters of all the ships etc. before Sunday in Mid Lent next or on that day at latest, and to receive _ security from the said lords and masters that they will have their ships in the water of Wytht on St. Barnabas next at latest, ready to set out in the king's service at his wages, as he shall warn them. By K. and C. MEMBRANE ld.