1335-12-12, Auckland

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas on 30 June in Ist year of his reign the king ordered the collectors of the old and new in the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to pay to Ralph de Nevill 7s. 6d. from the issues of those customs, in which sum the late king indebted to Ralph for his wages and those of the men-at-arms and whom he retained in the late king's service at the time when he constable of Werkeworth castle and keeper of the adjacent parts, as appears by a bill of the wardrobe under the seal of Roger de Walthen keeper thereof, which bill Ralph delivered into chancery in his and which afterwards the king caused to be delivered to the said and granted that Ralph should receive the said sum by the hands the collectors from the issues of the said custom, and on 30 June, in the year of his reign, the king ordered the treasurer and barons to allow sum to the collectors in their account, if they should be found to have it by virtue of the preceding order, receiving from the collectors the writ and the letters patent of Ralpt testifying the receipt of the said ; and now the king has learned from John de Frisco Marisco son and of Thomas de Frisco Marisco, then one of the collectors of the said now deceased, that although Thomas and Simon de Friskenad, the other collector of the same customs, paid 157/. 7s.6d. to Ralph by of the king's order, as may fully appear by Ralph's letters of acunder his seal, exhibited in chancery, yet the treasurer and have delayed to allow that sum to Thomas and Simon because they not show the said letters patent upon rendering their account for the of the customs and did not deliver them to the king there ; and the 157/. 7s. bd. are now exacted of John by summons of the exchequer ; because the letters patent have been burned by mishap (casaliter), as been testified by trustworthy men in whom the king has contilenee, king orders the treasurer and barons to cause Phomas and Simon to be and acquitted at the exchequer of the said 157/. 7s. 6d., notthat the letters patent were not exhibited or delivered at the of their account, if the treasurer and barons shall ascertain by the king's order and Ralph's letters of acquittance that Thomas Simon paid that sum to Ralph by the king's order, receiving from the said writ, Ralph's letters of acquittance and the bill of the Schedule. Warantia dierum.