1335-12-12, Auckland

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Whereas Bartholomew de Bard and Peter Byne and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi, on 1 November last, undertook in the presence of the king, the chancellor, treasurer and others of the council to find for the expenses of the household from 1 November to Michaelmas time to the keeper of the wardrobe for the time being or to his attorney, at London, and the king granted to them to sustain this charge all the issues of the old and new custom in the port of London and of the old and new custom in the port of Southampton, to be received by them or their attorneys by the hands of the collectors of these customs in the said places, by indenture, until the said feast except the assignments to John de Hanonf[ia] of 1,000 marks yearly on the old custom of London and to the lord of Kuyk of 250/. upon the same custom made by the king until a certain time; and the king granted to the merchants that if they were not satisfied at the said Michaelmas from those issues for what they had expended in the service of the household, they should then have the same customs in the aforesaid form until they should be fully satisfied for the same, and that if they received more from the customs than they expended in the said service, then that which they received beyond that sum should be allowed to them in other debts in which the king is bound to them ; and if perchance at the end of that term nothing is found to be owing by the king to them, then they shall make restitution to the king of what they have received beyond that sum due to them; the king wishing and granting that they shall have a leaf of the seal called coket of the old custom, and . 457 king's seal of the new custom, in their custody, under the seal of the of those customs in the said places, until they have been satisfied aforesaid, as is fully contained in a certain indenture under the privy ; the king therefore orders the treasurer, barons and chamberlains to to be delivered to those merchants or their attorneys all the issves of said customs in those ports from 1 November last and henceforth, the said assignments, by the hands of the collectors of those customs well as the leaf of the seal of the old custom and the seal of the new in those ports, and to cause tallies to be levied and delivered to the in discharge of the collectors for the sums which they shall he by acknowledgment of the merchants or otherwise to have paid those merchants, charging the said keeper with the sums which they so receive,