1343-09-11, Rockingham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede demand made upon Nicholas de Hotoft for 60. if they find them to be of him for the subsidy of 40s. a sack on 80 sacks of wool, after examination of the accounts of the collectors of customs in the port of London and that of Master Robert de Askeby, the king's clerk appointed to collect that subsidy in the parts of Flanders, on every sack taken there out of England, as for 801. which Nicholas lent to the king in his urgent need, the king granted that he should take 80 sacks of wool, from the said port, without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, and Nicholas so took the 80 sacks, and thereupon the king ordered Robert to permit Nicholas to take the said sacks to those parts without paying the said subsidy, and now the king has learned that the treasurer and barons have charged Nicholas with the subsidy upon Robert's account because in the letters to Robert no was made that the king pardoned Nicholas the said subsidy. By p.s. [15616.]