1373-01-22, Westminster

Matthew Button, John de Sloughtre, John de Weston the Hugh Rodberwe, Richard Brayn, John Caumpeden and Busshell. Order with diligence to be intendant upon the and levying in singular the cities, boroughs and towns in the town and suburbs of Bristol and the precinct excepted. of the fifteenth granted for one year in the parliament at Westminster at the morrow of St. Edmund the King by the lords, nobles, knights and commons of England, and of of their moveable goods granted by the citizens and of the cities and boroughs of the realm, and to do and all things contained in the commission to them addressed, the presence of Thomas Raylegh, so that notwithstanding they shall according to their said commission answer for of the said tenth and fifteenth at the Purification next, the other moiety at Whitsuntide following ; as lately by letters the king appointed them and the said Thomas to levy, collect receive the same in Gloucestershire to his use, namely as great as at the last grant of a tenth and fifteenth was levied in that of the cities, boroughs and towns without the said town of and no more, so that at the feasts above mentioned they should for the same at the exchequer or elsewhere as the king should ; and the king has discharged the said Thomas of levying collecting the same and has altogether removed him, for that by of the privy seal to him addressed, and produced in chancery, he to abide continually in the Isle of Wight co. Suthampton his lands there for the safe guard and defence of the island, so he may not be intendant upon such levy and collection. _ .