1370-09-11, Westminster

the collectors of customs in the port of Suthampton. Order certain letters of cocket of the prince of Aquitaine and Wales to Richard de Westbury merchant, and if assured that 36 3 cloves 6/b. of wool in 20 sarplers and 1 pocket are of the growth of Wales, were cocketed in the staple of Coneweye, and the custom truly paid, to suffer the said Richard to lade the said wool in ships in the port of Suthampton and without a second payment to take the same to Calais to make his advantage thereof; as by plaint make on behalf of the said Richard it is shewn the king that in the principality of North Wales he laded the said wool of the growth thereof, being weighed in the sarplers and pocket aforesaid, in a ship called la Katerine of Beaumaris, Adam le Clerc master, at the said prince's staple of Conewey, and paid the custom thereupon due to Robert de Parys chamberlain of the said prince in North Wales and collector in that staple of the custom as well upon wool, hides and woolfells as upon other merchandise etc. whatsoever, as by the said letters of cocket may appear, and that the said collectors are hindering him from lading the said wool in another ship and taking it to Calais without a second payment of custom as if it were not already customed, although after the lading thereof the said ship was arrested in Wales for the king's service and brought to Suthampton, and the said wool was taken out of the ship and put ashore against the will of the said Richard. Proviso that no wool of the growth of England shall by colour of these presents be taken over thither with the wool above mentioned.