1338-10-08, Kennington

To the takers, purveyors and receivers of wool in co. Hertford. Order to supersede the taking of the wool of the abbot of St. Albans exacted of him by reason of his spiritualities and the temporalities annexed thereto, on which he paid the tenth with the clergy, as although the clergy of the realm in the last parliament at Westminster granted a moiety of the wool to the king for his affairs and the defence of the realm, yet because the abbot was not summoned to that parliament and sent no proctors there, as the king is fully informed, and as he has granted, with the clergy of the province of Canterbury, in their congregation at the church of St. Bride, London, on the morrow of St. Jerome last, a tenth of all ecclesiastical goods for one year beyond the triennial tenth now current, and agreed to anticipate the terms of payment of the second year of the triennial tenth, wherefore he ought to be quit of the payment of wool in accordance with the form of the grant of the tenth aforesaid, the king wishes to do what is just and reasonable in the matter.