1335-12-14, Auckland

To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause the men of Welles to have until the quinzaine of the Purification next for 18 marks which are exacted of them, and to release them from any distraint made upon them, in the meantime, as the said men have besought the king to order the exaction of 18 marks from them to be superseded, as although the hobelers whom the king ordered to be chosen in that city for his service in Scotland, have set out in the said service, yet the sheriff causes to be exacted from them by divers distraints the said 18 marks, which certain men of that city, not knowing that the hobelers had set out, granted for the discharge of those hobelers ; and because Richard de Feriby, the king's clerk, keeper of the wardrobe, has certified to the king in chancery that ten bobelers of that city took part in the last war of Scotland from the beginning until the king's arrival at Colbrondespath, where being licensed by the king they returned home, and the rolls of chancery, by which it may be ascertained if several lhobelers were chosen in that city for the king's service, are not now with the king, the king has given those men the said respite, so that in the meantime, the rolls being inspected and the truth known, justice may be done in this respect. By C.