1338-10-24, Kennington
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause 15 tuns of flour, tuns of salt, 10 tuns of cider, 100 bacon hogs, 2 lasts of herrings, 40 12 crossbows with the winch (balistas de turno), 6 50 bows, 100 sheaves of arrows, 40 quintals of iron, 40 of laths and 50 targes, to be bought and purveyed, and a small to be laden with brushwood and coal, and the said things to be to the port where Walter will cross to the isle of Jersey, to shipped there, and afterwards delivered to him or his deputy, as is ordained by the council that he shall go to Jersey with certain crossbow-men and archers, to its succour, and it behoves to have victuals and other things for the maintenance of those men the garrison of the island. By letter of the keeper.
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