1338-12-20, Byfleet

To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi to lade in that and take to parts beyond the sea, without paying custom and sub- 69 sacks of wool which still remain to be laded out of 60U sacks the king granted they should take from that port, as the king that the Bardi should take 5,000 sacks, and the Peruzzi, 2,000 out of the realm, to do their pleasure therewith, and afterwards certain causes shown before the chancellor and treasurer and others the council in England, concerning the purveyance and collection the king's wool in divers parts of the realm, and the sending of the to the king to parts beyond the sea, the king granted that the merchants should then send 800 and 200 sacks of wool respectively the 7,000 sacks to the said parts, and that the purveyance and sendof the residue should cease until further order, and the king ordered collectors of customs in the port of London to permit those merchants lade the said 1,000 sacks in that port, and take them to the said parts paying the custom and subsidy thereon; and the king has granted that those merchants shall lade 600 sacks of the remainder the 7,000 sacks in the port of Boston, and take them as aforesaid, and the merchants have found security that they will cause the 600 to be taken to Andewerp, where the staple is ordained, and not the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of to take the oath of the mariners who take that wool, that they not take it except to Brabant, and to permit the said merchants to the 600 sacks in that port, and take them to parts beyond the sea paying the custom and subsidy thereon, notwithstanding the to the contrary, and that the merchants should be charged the custom and subsidy due thereon, in part payment of the sums by them for the king, as is fully contained in the said order, and now merchants have informed the king that in the time of the late collecthere they only laded 531 sacks, and the present collectors prevent from lading the remaining 69 sacks, wherefor they have besought king to provide a remedy. By the keeper and C.