1351-03-20, Westminster Calais

To the sheriff of Essex and his fellows, takers of corn in that county for the munition of Calais. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to cause 130 quarters of the 400 quarters of wheat which the king ordered them to purvey in that county with other victuals for the said munition, purveyed in places remote from the sea to be ground, so that the labour and expense of the carriage thereof may be spared, and to cause 20 empty tuns, in which the flour of that wheat may be placed, to be bought and purveyed, which the sheriff shall cause to be carried to the nearest port together with the residue of the wheat and the other corn and victuals purveyed by them, and deliver the 20 tuns with the flour therein to Robert Parker, by indenture, to do therewith as has been enjoined upon him, and the sheriff shall cause all the residue to be sent to Calais with all speed. By K.