1372-10-12, Richard Westminster

To the collectors of the petty custom in the port of the city of London. Order, upon the petition of the king's merchants of Dublin in Ireland, to stay their demand upon the said merchants for payment of a custom of 3d. in the pound to the king's use upon their merchandise in the said port; as the said merchants have shewn the king that although they and all other merchants of Ireland are of his own dominion and have ever hitherto been reckoned as natives, the collectors are demanding 3d. in the pound upon their said merchandise of them as of aliens, pretending that they are aliens, wherefore they have prayed for remedy ; and the king reckons the merchants of Dublin as natives. Proviso that they shall pay down the subsidy of 6d. in the pound upon their merchandise exported from that port or imported, according to the grant lately made to the king. ;