1377-05-20, Westminster

Order to deliver by indenture to William Waryn and Adam Wandesford the office of levying, collecting and receiving to the king's use the customs and payments whatsoever due to the king upon all merchandise and goods in the port of St. Botolph and in all places along the sea coast from thence northward to Grymesby and southward to Maydenhouse, the customs upon wool, hides and woolfells excepted, and all things to that office pertaining which are in the keeping of the said Richard and Richard, and to deliver by indenture to the said William and Adam all moneys by them received of the said customs etc. since ITI. 509 21 June in the 50th year of the reign, although on that date the king by letters patent appointed the said Richard and Richard to levy, collect and receive the same as aforesaid ; as by other letters patent the king has now appointed the said William and Adam for a set sum to be by them rendered yearly to him so to do in the port of St. Botolph, in singular the ports and places from thence along the sea coast to Grymesby on the one side and to Blakenaye on the other, and at those places, from 19 May in the 50th year to Christmas following and thenceforward for one year. It is the king's will that the said Richard and Richard be discharged toward him from 19 May aforesaid. To Geoffrey Tolbothe and John Dockyng. Like order, although on 21 June in the 50th year of his reign the king by letters patent appointed them collectors and receivers of customs etc. in the port of Lenne, the customs upon wool, hides and woolfells excepted.