1346-05-12, Walter Westminster

To the same. Order to take the advice of the council and to cause divers commissions to be made in the chancery of Ireland under the seal used in that land for the sheriffs and other fit persons to be escheators and collectors of customs there, so that they shall answer for the issues of their offices at the exchequer, Dublin, as the king is informed that the escheator and the collector of customs in that land cannot exercise these offices as they ought, because of the wars, although they receive great fees from the king therefor and that those offices could be exercised for a less sum and with more effect by the sheriffs of the various counties and others, wherefore the king has ordained that each sheriff shall exercise the office of escheator in that land in his county, and that certain collectors of customs shall be appointed in those counties or in places where ships call. By K. and C.