1374-04-04, Westminster

To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order this time of the king's favour to receive, instead of Peter de Brugges sheriff of Suthampton, John Sandford and Roger Colrithe, or one of them if both may not be there, whom the said sheriff has before the king in chancery appointed his attorneys, to make his proffer at the exchequer on the morrow of the Close of Easter next, not troubling the said sheriff for his absence on that day ; as he is so engaged upon certain business of the king wherewith the king has specially charged him that he may not come in person to the exchequer as usual onthatday. By K. Walter de Haywode sheriff of Wiltesir has the like writ under the names of John Sandford and John Waryn.