1336-02-16, Walsingham

To the sheriff of York. Order, upon sight of these presents, to cause to be made within cities, boroughs, market towns, sea ports, other fit places, that all the men of that county, between the ages of and sixty years, and all other men, both knights and esquires, of fighting, shall provide themselves, under pain of forfeiture, with arms according to the form of the statute of Winchester, so that they may be ready to set out for the defence of the realm, and to fight all those who shall presume to invade it by land or sea, when they shall be warned for this by the king, causing them to be informed that if they are disobedient to this order the king will punish them. [ Federa.]