1369-10-24, Westminster

To the collectors of customs in the port of Berewic upon Twede or of Kland. Order, upon the petition of Thomas de Estwyk, to suffer him by himself or his servants to lade in either port and take to the city of London or elsewhere within the realm at his will ten lasts of hides to make his advantage thereof, any command of the king to them addressed to the contrary notwithstanding; as he has prayed the king's licence so to do, and the king has granted him licence, because Richard de Kent, Hugh Bryugge and Robert Terry all of London merchants, appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned for him that he shall bring those hides to London or other places within and not without the realm, and to answer to the king for the forfeiture thereof and of the ship in case they be taken to any parts over sea, and for the custom thereupon in case they be lost at sea. By C. Et erat patens.