1323-05-16, Rothwell

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to pay to Selivus Suusse, burgess and merchant of Lenne, or William March, his attorney, 731. 6s. 8d., which the king owes to him for 20 lasts of Norway herrings, price 73s. 4d. a last, bought from him for the munition of the king's castles and towns in Scotland, as appears by a bill under the seal of the chamberlain of Scotland, dated 2 April, in the third year of the reign, out of 52/. 19s. 7d., which certain sub-taxors and collectors in the parts of Merskland, co. Norfolk, of the eighteenth were convicted of concealing at the suit of the said attorney, who was prosecuting at the cost of Selivus, before Walter de Norwico and his fellows, the justices appointed to enquire into the premises, and out of 32/. 6s. 8d. imposed upon the said sub-taxors and collectors for their fines and amercements, the said Selivus having requested the king to cause him to be satisfied from the said money if the sub-taxors and collectors were convicted upon his prosecution in the king's name. The king makes this order at the request of Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke. By K.